The corpus record

διαζάω

diazao

live through, pass

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Where it lives

Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Memorabilia 3 · 0.84/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Laws 3 · 0.29/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διαζάω · diazaō — LSJ

live through, pass

live through, pass, ὀρθῶς τὸν βίον E. IA 923; τὸ καθʼ ἡμέραν Pl. R. 561c, etc.: abs., καλῶς δ. X. HG 7.1.8.

2 live, supported life, live, life

c. part., live by doing so and so, ποιηφαγέοντες διέζωον they supported life by . ., Hdt. 3.25; δ. ἀπό τινος live off or by a thing, S. Ph. 535, Ar. Av. 1434, etc.; ἔκ τινος Stoic. 3.187; πῶς οὖν διέζης ἢ πόθεν μηδὲν ποιῶν; Ar. Pl. 906; δ. νομῇ of pastoral life, Pl. Lg. 679a.

In the wild

διαζῆν · diazēn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 1049)
διέζης · diezēs Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 720)
διαζῇ · diazēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.5 (DIORISIS sentence 6630)
διαζῆν · diazēn Euripides, Bacchae 424–429
διαζῆν · diazēn Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *)axilleu/s (DIORISIS sentence 575)
διέζωον · diezōon Herodotus, Histories 3.25.6 (DIORISIS sentence 3046)

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Where it came from

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