The corpus record

μεταδῐώκ-ω

metadioko

follow closely after, pursue

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Where it lives

Philebus 4 · 2.27/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
Statesman 2 · 1.18/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
Hellenica 3 · 0.46/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μεταδῐώκ-ω · metadiōk-ō — LSJ

follow closely after, pursue

follow closely after, pursue, Hdt. 3.4, 62, X. Cyr. 4.3.3; μ. τὴν αὑτοῦ φύσιν Pl. Plt. 310d; τιμωρίαν Id. Lg. 866e; τέρψεις D.S. 2.23; τὸ ἀκριβὲς ἐν τῷ λόγῳ Alex.Aphr. in Top. 437.19: abs., X. HG 4.5.12, Cyr. 7.3.7.

2 pursue, investigate

pursue, investigate, τὰς αἰτίας πρώτας Pl. Ti. 46e; τὴν τῶν μύθων ἰδέαν ib. 59c:—Pass., Id. Sph. 225e.

In the wild

μεταδιώκειν · metadiōkein Epictetus, Discourses 2.23 (DIORISIS sentence 3518)
μεταδιώκει · metadiōkei Herodotus, Histories 3.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2887)
μεταδιώκει · metadiōkei Herodotus, Histories 3.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2887)
μεταδιώξαντας · metadiōxantas Herodotus, Histories 3.62.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3325)
μεταδιώκοντες · metadiōkontes Plato, Critias 112
μεταδιώκοντας · metadiōkontas Plato, Laws 835

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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