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διαπειράομαι

diapeiraomai

make trial

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Where it lives

Against Olympiodorus 1 · 2.85/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

διαπειράομαι · diapeiraomai — LSJ

make trial, proof of, try to impose on, have experience

make trial or proof of, τῶν Περσέων Hdt. 5.109, cf. 3.14, Cratin.Jun. 7.2; try to impose on a man, Pl. Lg. 921b: c. gen. rei, have experience of a thing, Th. 6.91: abs., ὥσπερ αἴνιγμα συντιθέντι διαπειρωμένῳ Pl. Ap. 27a, cf. Lg. l.c.

2 attempt obstinately

attempt obstinately, τὰ ψευδῆ λέγειν Antipho l.c.

late in Act., διαπειρῶν δωροδοκίαις Plu. Pomp. 51.

In the wild

διαπειραθῆναι · diapeirathēnai Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus 46 (DIORISIS sentence 120)
διαπειρώμενον · diapeirōmenon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7301)
διεπειρᾶτο · diepeirato Herodotus, Histories 3.14.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2949)
διαπειρᾶσθαι · diapeirasthai Herodotus, Histories 5.109.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6109)
διαπειρᾶσθαι · diapeirasthai Herodotus, Histories 5.109.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6108)
διεπειρᾶτο · diepeirato Herodotus, Histories 6.128.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6942)

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