The corpus record

διατήκω

diateko

melt, soften by heat

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Where it lives

Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

διατήκω · diatēkō — LSJ

melt, soften by heat, relax

melt, soften by heat, κηρόν Ar. Nu. 149; relax the bowels, Hp. Aër. 7.

2 soak

soak, ἐν ἐλαίῳ Thphr. Od. 29, Aët. 15.13:—Pass., aor. -ετήχθην Ph. Bel. 89.20.

II melt away, thaw, waste away

Pass., with pf. -τέτηκα, melt away, thaw, X. An. 4.5.6; waste away, Arist. Mete. 385a28, Agath. 2.14.

In the wild

διατήξας · diatēxas Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 124)
διατακήσεται · diatakēsetai Epictetus, Discourses 3.16 (DIORISIS sentence 4594)
διατήκειν · diatēkein Hippocrates, De aere aquis et locis 7 (DIORISIS sentence 145)
διετάκη · dietakē Septuaginta, Habacuc 3
διατηκομένης · diatēkomenēs Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1752)

Where it came from

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