διαδέχομαι

diadechomai

receive one from another

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 2
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Book IV 1
Chapter 1 763b20–766b26

765b32
Book V 1
Chapter 8 788b3–789b20

789a10
Politics 2
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Book IV 2
Chapter 6 1292b22–1293a34

1293a29

Chapter 15 1299a3–1300b12

1299b4
History of Animals 1
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Book VI 1
Chapter 8 564a7–24

564a8
Meteorology 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 5 361b14–363a20

363a7

Dictionary (LSJ)

διαδέχομαι, fut. -ξομαι, A. receive one from another, δ. τὸν λόγον take up the word, i.e. speak next, Pl. R. 576b; λόγον παρά τινος D.H. Rh. 8.14: abs., διαδεξάμενοι ἔλεγον Hdt. 8.142; ἀποκρινόμενοι διαδέχεσθε Pl. Lg. 900c; δ. νόμους παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, τέχνην, Antipho 1.3, Lys. 24.6; τὴν διατριβήν, leadership of a school of philosophy, Phld. Acad.Ind.p.58 M. 2. δ. βασιλείαν succeed to the kingdom, Plb. 2.4.7; ἀρχὴν παρά τινος Id. 9.28.8; τὴν ναῦν δ. τινί, of a trierarch (cf. διαδοχή I), D. 50.38; πλοῦτον παρά τινος Luc. DMort. 11.3. II. διαδέχεσθαί τινι succeed one, take his place, relieve him on guard, etc., Pl. Lg. 758b, X. Cyr. 8.6.18: later, δ. τινά Arist. Pol. 1299b4, Plb. 28.3.6; δ. τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν act for the στρατηγός, BGU 18.3 (ii A. D.), etc.; τοὺς προφήτας στολισταὶ δ. represent, PGnom. 193. b. appoint a successor to, τινά Eun. Hist.p.231 D.:—Pass., διεδέχθη τῆς στρατηγίας was relieved of his command, Id.p.243 D. 2. abs., relieve one another, τοῖς ἵπποις with fresh horses, X. An. 1.5.2 (wrongly expld. as closing in from both sides by Demetr. Eloc. 93); succeed, οἱ διαδεχόμενοι στρατηγοί Lys. 13.62, cf. Arist. Pol. 1293a29; οἱ διαδεξάμενοι the successors (of Alexander), Plb. 9.34.11; οἱ τὰ Πύρρου δ. App. Ill. 7: pf. part. Pass., νὺξ εἰσάγει καὶ νὺξ ἀπωθεῖ διαδεδεγμένη in turns, by turns, S. Tr. 30; διαδεξάμενοι Act.Ap. 7.45; οἱ διαδεχόμενοι καιροί Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 7.8.3. III. supersede, τὸν ὕπατον D.S. 24.1.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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