διαδέχομαι

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English (LSJ)

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 1), 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, BGU18.3 (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.