διάδοχος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=διάδοχον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[succeeding]] a person in a thing:<br><span class="bld">1</span> c. dat. pers. et gen. rei, <b class="b3">δ. Μεγαβάζῳ τῆς στρατηγίης</b> his [[successor in]] the command, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.26, cf. 1.162, etc.; <b class="b3">θνητοῖς… διάδοχοι μοχθημάτων</b> [[succeeding]] them in, i.e. [[relieving]] them [[from]], toils, [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''464, cf. 1027; σοι τῶνδε διάδοχος δόμων E.''Alc.''655.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. gen. rei only, <b class="b3">δ. τῆς Ἀστυόχου ναυαρχίας</b> [[succeeding to]] his command, Th.8.85; δ. τῆς κληρονομίας Isoc.19.43; τῆς φιλοσοφίας Epicur.''Fr.''217.<br><span class="bld">3</span> c. gen. pers. only, <b class="b3">φέγγος ὕπνου δ.</b> sleep's [[successor]] light, S.''Ph.'' 867.<br><span class="bld">4</span> c. dat. pers. only, δ. Κλεάνδρῳ X.''An.''7.2.5: c. dat. rei, ἔργοισι δ' ἔργα διάδοχα [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Andromache|Andr.]]''743; <b class="b3">κακὸν κακῷ δ.</b> ib.803; quasiact., <b class="b3">λύπη… δ. κακῶν κακοῖς</b> [[bringing a succession]] of evils [[after]] evils, ''Hec.''588; <b class="b3">ἀγὼν… γόων γόοις</b> ([[γόων]] bis codd.) δ. ''Supp.''72 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">5</span> abs., <b class="b3">διάδοχοι ἐφοίτων</b> they went to work [[in relays]] or [[gangs]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.22, cf. Th.1.110: neuter plural as adverb, [[in turn]], [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Andromache|Andr.]]''1200(lyr.).<br><span class="bld">6</span> as [[substantive]], <b class="b3">οἱ Δ.</b> the ''Successors'' of Alexander, [[Diodorus Siculus|D.S.]]18.42.<br><span class="bld">b</span> the lowest grade of court officials at Alexandria, ''OGI''100.4, ''PAmh.''2.36.5, ''PRyl.''67.2 (both ii B. C.).<br><span class="bld">c</span> [[substitute]], [[deputy]], ''BGU''852.4 (ii A. D.), ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''54.7 (iii A. D.).<br><span class="bld">d</span> [[head of a school of philosophers]], τῆς σχολῆς Phld.''Ind.Sto.''53; δ. Στωικός ''IG''3.661, cf. 22.1009 (Epist. Plotinae).<br><span class="bld">e</span> a kind of [[gem]], Plin.''HN''37.157.