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διαφοιτάω

diaphoitao

wander, roam

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Where it lives

On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

διαφοιτάω · diaphoitaō — LSJ

wander, roam, go backwards and forwards, spread

wander, roam, l.c., Hdt. 1.60; go backwards and forwards, ib. 186; of hounds on the scent, X. Cyn. 3.3; δ. διὰ τῆς χώρας Ar. Av. 557; ἀνʼ ἐρῆμον δρίος prob. in Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 7.2; δ. τῆς Ἰταλίας Plu. Caes. 33: c. acc., διαφοιτῶντες [τὸ ζεῦγμα] Philostr. Im. 2.17; οἰμωγὴ δ. τὸν στρατόν Id. Her. 19.12; of a report, spread, εἰς Ῥώμην Plu. Fab. 8, cf. Luc. Alex. 7, Hdn. 1.4.8, etc.

II permeate

permeate, ψυχὴ διαπεφοιτηκυῖα (sc. σώματος) Plot. 1.1.4, cf. M.Ant. 8.54; [δημιουργὸς] τῆς ὅλης [τῆς ὕλης] διαπεφοιτηκώς Gal. 4.561.

In the wild

διαφοιτᾶν · diaphoitan Aristophanes, Birds 555 (DIORISIS sentence 455)
διαπεφοίτηκε · diapephoitēke Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.54.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1381)
διαπεφοιτηκυῖαν · diapephoitēkyian Plotinus, Enneads 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 31)
διεφοίτων · diephoitōn Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.12 (DIORISIS sentence 3193)
διαφοιτῶσιν · diaphoitōsin Xenophon, On Hunting 3.3 (DIORISIS sentence 72)

Where it came from

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