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διωθέω

diotheo

push asunder, tear away

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Where it lives

Against Theocrines 1 · 2.15/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Against Midias 1 · 0.67/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Antidosis 1 · 0.57/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
On the False Embassy 1 · 0.43/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Histories 5 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διωθ-έω · diōth-eō — LSJ

push asunder, tear away, tore, away, drive apart

push asunder, tear away, [πτελέη] ἐκ ῥιζέων ἐριποῦσα κρημνὸν . . διῶσε the elm as it fell uprooted tore the bank away, Il. 21.244; διώσας καὶ κατακτείνας ἐχθρούς E. Heracl. 995; drive apart, τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰς διεξόδους Pl. Ti. 67e.

2 thrust through

thrust through, τι διά τινος X. HG 2.1.8, Plb. 21.28.14.

II force oneʼs way through, break through

more freq. in Med. (fut. διώσομαι Democr. 191), force oneʼs way through, break through, τὰ γέρρα Hdt. 9.102; τὸν ὄχλον X. Cyr. 7.5.39; τὰς τάξεις Plb. 11.1.12; δ. τὴν ὕλην, of roots, Thphr. HP 8.11.8; τὴν θάλατταν, of a river, Plb. 4.41.4.

2 push from oneself, push away, repulse, repel, get rid of danger

push from oneself, push away, τοῖς κόντοις διεωθοῦντο, of sailors, Th. 2.84; ἡ γαστὴρ δ. τὸ περιττὸν εἰς τὴν νῆστιν Gal. 5.567; repulse, στρατὸν ἰθυμαχίῃ Hdt. 4.102; οἷς [πέτροις] . . διώσει στρατόν A. Fr. 199.9 (Dobr.); κῆρας Democr. l.c.; τὰς τύχας E. HF 315; ψευδῆ λόγον καὶ συκοφαντίαν repel it, D. 21.124; τὴν ἐπιβουλήν Id. 58.65: abs., get rid of danger, Hdt. 9.88.

3 reject, refuse

reject, τὴν εὔνοιαν Id. 7.104; ὃ μὴ προσίενται Th. 4.108; τὴν ἐπικουρίαν Arist. EN 1163b25; of bribes, D. 19.139: abs., refuse, Hdt. 6.86.βʹ, Plu. Brut. 52: so pf. Pass. διῶσμαι cj. for δίωμαι in this sense, Thgn. 1311.

In the wild

διωθεῖσθαι · diōtheisthai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1163b (DIORISIS sentence 3079)
διωθεῖσθαι · diōtheisthai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1171b (DIORISIS sentence 3434)
διεωσάμην · dieōsamēn Demosthenes, Against Midias 124 (DIORISIS sentence 374)
διώσασθαι · diōsasthai Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 65 (DIORISIS sentence 191)
διεωθοῦντο · dieōthounto Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Proof.139 (DIORISIS sentence 473)
διωθουμένου · diōthoumenou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4861)

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