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διαπον-έω

diaponeo

work out with labour, elaborate

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Where it lives

Cleitophon 2 · 12.92/10k
Lovers 1 · 4.18/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2 · 4.11/10k
To Demonicus 1 · 3.46/10k
Epinomis 2 · 3.17/10k
Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Laws 15 · 1.45/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Epistles 2 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διαπον-έω · diapon-eō — LSJ

work out with labour, elaborate, cultivate, practise, exercise, managed, governed, to be taught, thoroughly, veterans

work out with labour, elaborate, Isoc. 5.85; cultivate, practise, δ. γράμματα Pl. Lg. 810b, cf. R. 535c; τὰ πρὸς ἀγῶνας συντείνοντα Arist. Pol. 1341a11; exercise, σώματα X. Cyn. 4.10; σώματα δρόμοις καὶ πάλαις Plu. Lyc. 14; αὑτὸν Id. Dem. 5; στρατόν App. Syr. 43; τοὺς νέους Luc. Anach. 18:—Med., διαπονεῖσθαι ἐπιτηδεύματα, τέχνας, Pl. Lg. 846d, cf. Phdr. 273e, X. Mem. 2.1.33:—Pass., Pl. Criti. 118c, Ep. 326d, etc.; οἴκου . . οὐχ ὡς τὰ πρόσθʼ ἄριστα διαπονουμένου managed, governed, A. Ag. 19; διαπ

2 till, cultivate completely

till or cultivate completely, χώραν Plb. 4.45.7:—Pass., Hell.Oxy. 12.5.

3 to be worn out, troubled

Pass., to be worn out, troubled, Act. Ap. 4.2, 16.18, POxy. 743.22 (i B.C.).

II to work hard, the hard-working, hardy, to be hard-worked

intr., to work hard, δ. τῇ διανοίᾳ καὶ τῷ σώματι Arist. Pol. 1339a8, cf. Aristeas 92; περὶ τὸ σῶμα Arist. EN 1178a26; περὶ τὰ δημιουργικὰ τεχνήματα Pl. Lg. 846d: c. inf., δ. πᾶν ἰσόρροπον ποιεῖν X. Smp. 2.17: —Med., δ. τὸ πᾶσαν πίστιν λαβεῖν Pl. Lg. 966c; δ. περὶ τὸν γόνον Arist. GA 759b1; οἱ διαπονούμενοι the hard-working, hardy, opp. ἄπονοι, X. Lac. 5.8; to be hard-worked, of hounds, Arr. Cyn. 32.1, al.

In the wild

διαπονουμένου · diaponoumenou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 16–19
διαπονεῖν · diaponein Aristotle, Ars Poetica 24
διαπονεῖνʼ · diaponeinʼ Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1166a (DIORISIS sentence 3183)
διαπονεῖ · diaponei Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1178a (DIORISIS sentence 3735)
διαπονούντων · diaponountōn Aristotle, Politics 1263a (DIORISIS sentence 408)
διαπονεῖν · diaponein Aristotle, Politics 1339a (DIORISIS sentence 3054)

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