The corpus record

διατελ-ής

diateles

continuous, incessant

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Where it lives

De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
Against Phaenippus 1 · 4.51/10k
On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
Against Leochares 1 · 2.43/10k
Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Epistles 2 · 1.18/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διατελ-ής · diatel-ēs — LSJ

continuous, incessant, ever-flowing, permanent, perpetual

continuous, incessant, βρονταί S. OC 1514; ever-flowing, ὕδατα Ael. VH 13.1; permanent, τυραννίδες Pl. R. 618a; perpetual, ἀρετή IG 7.2509 (Thebes). (διὰ τέλους serves as the Adv.)

In the wild

διατελεῖ · diatelei Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 39)
διατελεῖ · diatelei Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 52)
διατελεῖ · diatelei Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 1
διατελεῖ · diatelei Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 958)
διατελεῖ · diatelei Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1154b (DIORISIS sentence 2604)
διατελεῖ · diatelei Aristotle, Politics 1327b (DIORISIS sentence 2637)

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Where it came from

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