διαμέλλ-ω · diamell-ō — LSJ
to be always going, to make a show, delay, put off
to be always going to do, to make a show of doing: hence, delay, put off, Th. 1.71, 142, Ph. 1.353, Luc. Nigr. 10, al.:—Pass., Th. 8.54.
The corpus record
διαμέλλ-ω
diamello
to be always going
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Where it lives
- History 10 · 0.67/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- διαμέλλωσιν · diamellōsin Thucydides, History 1.142.1 (DIORISIS sentence 910)
- διαμέλλετε · diamellete Thucydides, History 1.71.1 (DIORISIS sentence 431)
- διαμέλλειν · diamellein Thucydides, History 4.27.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2719)
- διαμέλλειν · diamellein Thucydides, History 6.25.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4226)
- διαμελλήσειν · diamellēsein Thucydides, History 6.49.4 (DIORISIS sentence 4366)
- διαμέλλοντας · diamellontas Thucydides, History 7.40.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5027)
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