Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiatíθimi/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiatíθimi/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiatíθimi/

Verb

διατίθημι • ‎(diatíthēmi)

1. (active) place separately, arrange each in their own places, distribute
   • Herodotus, Histories 1.132
   • Herodotus, Histories 7.39
   • Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.27
   • Aristotle, History of Animals 8.4.3
   1. (with an adverb) to manage well or ill
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.15
      • Demosthenes 19.88
      1. (of persons) to handle or treat well or ill
         • Herodotus, Histories 3.155
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.57
         • Lysias, Collected Works 18.23
      2. to dispose one in such a manner
         • Isocrates, Collected Works 5.80
         • Demosthenes 18.168
         • Demosthenes 20.22
         • Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.2.3
         • Plato, Theaetetus 151.C
         • Isocrates, Collected Works 8.14
         • Aristotle, Politics 5.2.4
         • Plato, Symposium 207.C
   2. to set forth, recite
      • Plato, Charmides 162.D
      • Plato, Laws 658.D
      1. to describe
         • Strabo, Geography 1.1.16
2. (middle voice) to arrange as one likes, to dispose of
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.2.7
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 12.140
   • Demosthenes 2.16
   • Lucian, How to Write History 51, (Compare On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 25)
   • Polybius, Histories 20.6.5
   • Polybius, Histories 16.1.2
   1. to dispose of one's property, devise it by will
      • Plato, Laws 922.C
      • Isaeus, Collected Works 3.68
      • Isaeus, Collected Works 7.1
      • Lysias, Collected Works 19.39
      • Aristotle, Politics 2.9.15
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 9.16
   2. to set out for sale, dispose of merchandise
      • Herodotus, Histories 1.1.194
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.10
      • Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 2.11
      • Plato, Laws 849.D
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.6.13
   3. to arrange or settle mutually, make a covenant
      • Aristophanes, The Birds 439
      • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 3.25
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.23
   4. to compose, male
      • Plato, Laws 834.A
   5. to set forth, recite
      • Polybius, Histories 3.108.2
      • Lucian, Hermotimus 1

Inflection

References

• διατίθημι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διατίθημι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «διατίθημι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «διατίθημι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• LSJ 8th edition