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διασχίζω

diaschizo

cleave asunder, sever

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Gorgias 2 · 0.76/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

δια-σχίζω · dia-schizō — LSJ

cleave asunder, sever, to be cloven asunder, to be separated, parted, to be set at variance, have a cleft

cleave asunder, sever, ἱστία δέ σφιν . . διέσχισεν ἲς ἀνέμοιο Od. 9.71; ἐάν τις ἓν δ. Pl. Phd. 97a, etc.:—Pass., to be cloven asunder, νεῦρα διεσχίσθη Il. 16.316; opp. συγκρίνεσθαι, Pl. Lg. 893e; θοἰμάτιον δ. Id. Grg. 469d; of soldiers, to be separated, parted, X. Cyr. 4.5.13; to be set at variance, διέσχιστο ἡ πόλις Charito 6.1: impers., τούτοις διέσχισται they have a cleft, Arist. Resp. 475a2.

In the wild

διέσχισται · dieschistai Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 85)
διεσχίσθη · dieschisthē Iliad 16.316
διέσχισεν · dieschisen Odyssey 9.71
διεσχίσθαι · dieschisthai Plato, Gorgias 469
διεσχισμένον · dieschismenon Plato, Gorgias 469
διασχίζεται · diaschizetai Plato, Laws 893

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