διαχέω

diacheo

pour different ways, scatter

Appears 16 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 6
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Book I 1
Chapter 17 496a4–497b2

496b31
Book II 1
Chapter 17 506b32–509a23

509a15
Book III 2
Chapter 1 509a27–511a35

510b27

Chapter 22 523a13–27

523a26
Book V 1
Chapter 15 546b15–548a21

546b30
Book VII 1
Chapter 3 583a14–583b28

583b15
De Audibilibus 5
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

800a11
800b28
800b35
801a6
801b32
Meteorology 2
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Book III 2
Chapter 1 370b3–371b17

370b5

Chapter 5 375b16–377a28

376b23
De Anima 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 419b4–421a6

419b21
Generation of Animals 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 7 745b21–747a22

747a4
Physiognomonics 1
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Chapter 6 810a14–814b9

813a26

Dictionary (LSJ)

διαχέω, fut. -χεῶ, later -χύσω Gp. 7.8.4: aor. -έχεα, Ep. -έχευα (the only tense used by Hom.):—Α. pour different ways, scatter, τὸν χοῦν Hdt. 2.150. b. in Hom., cut up a victim into joints, αῖψʼ ἄρα μιν διέχευαν Od. 3.456, cf. Il. 7.316, al.; χαλκὸς ἔγκατα διέχευεν Theoc. 22.203. 2. disperse, τὰ συγκεκριμένα Pl. Phlb. 46e; ἡ θερμότης δ. τὸ ὑγρόν Arist. Pr. 869a15; melt, fuse, χαλκόν Paus. 9.41.1; liquefy, opp. πηγνύναι, Pl. Ti. 46d; νῆα . . διέχευαν ἄελλαι A.R. 3.320; δ. ἀποστήματα disperse abscesses, Thphr. Od. 59(61); δ. ἴχνη to destroy the scent, X. Cyn. 5.3:—Pass., ib.8.1:—also Med., dissolve, Nic. Al. 373. 3. metaph., confound, τὰ βεβουλευμένα Hdt. 8.57. 4. put in a good humour, τινὰ ὁμιλίαις καὶ λόγοις Plu. 2.74d, cf. Philostr. VS 2.10.1, Hermog. Id. 2.9. II. more freq. in Pass., to be poured from one vessel into another, Hdt. 6.119. 2. run through, spread, Th. 2.75,76, Arist. Fr. 243. 3. to be dissolved, liquefied, X. Cyn. 8.1, Arist. Pr. 890b17, etc.; of a corpse, Hdt. 3.16; disperse, of soldiers, X. HG 7.4.34; of humours, Hp. Epid. 4.45. 4. metaph., to be or become diffused or relaxed, εὐφραινόμενον -χεῖται, opp. λυπούμενον συσπειρᾶται, Pl. Smp. 206d; ὑπὸ μέθης διακεχυμένος Id. Lg. 775c, cf. Plb. 8.27.4; [αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι] οὐ διαχέονται Epicur. Sent. 30; μαλακὸν καὶ διακεχυμένον βλέπειν Arist. Phgn. 813a26; φαιδρὸν καὶ δ. πρόσωπον Plu. Alex. 19; τῆς ψυχῆς τὸ παθητικὸν διακεχυμένον ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου Zeno ap.eund.2.82f, cf. Tryph. Trop.p.205S.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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