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διαστρέφω

diastrepho

turn different ways, twist about

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Where it lives

Susanna (LXX) 2 · 26.18/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
Ecclesiastes 3 · 6.63/10k
On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
Proverbia 6 · 5.4/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Fourth Philippic 1 · 2.26/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διαστρέφω · diastrephō — LSJ

turn different ways, twist about, to distort, to be distorted, twisted, to be warped, to have oneʼs eyes distorted, to have oneʼs neck twisted, with, twisted, had, turned

turn different ways, twist about, τὰ σώματα, as in the dance, X. Smp. 7.3; δ. τὸ πρόσωπον to distort it, Plu. Vit.pud. 2.535a:—mostly Pass., to be distorted or twisted, of the eyes, limbs, etc., Hp. Aph. 4.49; ἡ ῥὶς δ. Id. Art. 38; μέλη διεστραμμένα Pl. Grg. 524c; to be warped, τὰ διεστραμμένα τῶν ξύλων Arist. EN 1109b6: also of persons, to have oneʼs eyes distorted, or to have oneʼs neck twisted (Scholl. give both interprr.), εὐδαιμονίζω δʼ εἰ διαστραφήσομαι; Ar. Eq. 175; so ἀπολαύσομαί τί γʼ ε

2 distort, pervert, having misrepresented, perverse

metaph., distort, pervert, [τρόπον χρηστόν] E. Fr. 597; τοὺς νόμους Is. 11.4; τὸν δικαστήν Arist. Rh. 1354a24; ὑπόληψιν Id. EN 1140b14; τῶν διαστρεφόντων (sc. παθῶν) Phld. Lib. p.32 O.; διαστρέψαντες τἀληθῆ having misrepresented it, D. Prooem. 46.2:—Pass., διαστραφῆναι τὴν διάνοιαν Luc. Vit. Auct. 24; γενεὰ διεστραμμένη perverse, LXX De. 32.5.

II turn aside, divert

turn aside, divert, ἴχνος τὸ πρόσθεν φρενῶν A. Supp. 1017.

III

sens. obsc., = βινεῖν, Eup. 7 D.

In the wild

διαστρέψω · diastrepsō Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 1016–1017
διεστράφην · diestraphēn Aristophanes, Acharnians 15 (DIORISIS sentence 10)
διαστραφήσομαι · diastraphēsomai Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 172)
διαστραφήσομαι · diastraphēsomai Aristophanes, Knights 175 (DIORISIS sentence 175)
διεστραμμένον · diestrammenon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 5
διαστρέφειν · diastrephein Aristotle, Ars Poetica 9

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