διορύσσω
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
Att. διορύττω,
A dig through, διὰ τάφρον ὀρύξας having dug a trench across or along, Od.21.120; τοῖχον δ., = τοιχωρυχέω, Hdt.9.37, cf. Ar.Pl. 565, Th.2.3, D.54.37; δεσμωτήριον Id.25.56; οἰκίαν X.Smp.4.30, PPetr.3p.60: c. acc. loci, τὸν Ἄθω Lys.2.29, cf. Pl.Lg.699a, D.6.30: —Pass., Ev.Matt.24.43. 2 metaph., undermine, ruin, D.45.30; φιλίαν Lib.Or.1.123; δημοκρατίαν Id.Decl.1.41:—Pass., διορωρυγμένα δωροδοκίαις Plu.Phoc.12, cf. Him.Ecl.5.6 (but to be entrenched in our several cities, D.9.28). II worm out, ἀπόρρητα Bato 6; τὰ βουλευόμενα Plu.2.87c. III Pass., to be shut up in a funeral vault, D.S.4.43.
