The corpus record

διεμ-πολάω

diempolao

sell to different buyers

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Where it lives

Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k

What it meant

διεμ-πολάω · diem-polaō — LSJ

sell to different buyers, sell in lots

sell to different buyers or sell in lots, E. Ba. 512; ἐμπορικὰ χρήματα δ. Ar. Ach. 973.

2 bargain is, driving?

metaph., τί με . . διεμπολᾷ λόγοισι πρός σε; what bargain is he driving? S. Ph. 579; of a mercenary marriage, ὠθούμεθʼ ἔξω καὶ διεμπολώμεθα Id. Fr. 583.7.

In the wild

διεμπολᾶν · diempolan Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 745)
διεμπολήσομεν · diempolēsomen Euripides, Bacchae 511–514
διεμπολᾷ · diempolai Sophocles, Philoctetes 578–579

Where it came from

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