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δίειμι

dieimi

go to and fro, roam about

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

δίειμι · dieimi — LSJ

go to and fro, roam about, spread

go to and fro, roam about, Ar. Ach. 845; of a report, spread, λόγος διῄει Plu. Ant. 56.

2 pass through, get through, escape

pass through. διʼ αὐτῶν μέσων Th. 3.21; get through, escape, διὰ τῶν πόρων Arist. Cael. 307b13; ἔξω Thphr. CP 5.9.12: abs., Arist. Ph. 204a4.

3 pass, proceed

pass, ἡμέρα χειμέριος δίεισιν Thphr. Sign. 46; proceed, of a play, Ar. Ra. 920.

II go through, traverse

c. acc., go through, traverse, Id. Av. 1392: c. acc. cogn., δ. τὸν θεῖον δρόμον Pl. Ax. 370e.

b go through a subject, narrate, describe, discuss

go through a subject in speaking or writing, narrate, describe, discuss, Id. Cri. 47c; δ. τῷ λόγῳ Id. Grg. 505e, cf. Nic. ll. cc., Luc. Icar. 3.

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