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διαφοιτάω , Aeol. part.
A.“ζαφοίταισ᾽” Sapph.Supp.25.15:—wander, roam, l.c., Hdt.1.60; go backwards and forw ards, ib.186; of hounds on the scent, X.Cyn.3.3; “δ. διὰ τῆς χώρας” Ar.Av.557; ἀν᾽ ἐρῆμον δρίος prob. in Lyr.Alex.Adesp.7.2; “δ. τῆς Ἰταλίας” Plu.Caes.33: c. acc., “διαφοιτῶντες [τὸ ζεῦγμα]” Philostr.Im.2.17; “οἰμωγὴ δ. τὸν στρατόν” Id.Her.19.12; of a report, spread, “εἰς Π̔ώμην” Plu.Fab.8, cf. Luc.Alex.7, Hdn.1.4.8, etc.
II. permeate, ψυχὴ διαπεφοιτηκυῖα (sc. σώματος) Plot.1.1.4, cf. M.Ant.8.54; [“δημιουργὸς] τῆς ὅλης [τῆς ὕλης] διαπεφοιτηκώς” Gal.4.561.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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