διά: Difference between revisions

|auten=(cf. [[δύο]]): [[between]], [[through]], [[originally]] denoting [[severance]].—I. adv. ([[here]] belong the examples of ‘tmesis’ so-called), διὰ δ' [[ἔπτατο]] πικρὸς [[ὀιστός]], Il. 5.99; [[διά]] τ ἔτρεσαν [[ἄλλυδις]] [[ἄλλος]] (defined by [[ἄλλυδις]] [[ἄλλος]]), Il. 17.729 ; διὰ κτῆσιν δατέοντο, ‘[[between]]’ [[themselves]], Il. 5.158 ; [[κλέος]] διὰ ξεῖνοι φορέουσιν, ‘[[abroad]],’ Od. 19.333; freq. [[with]] an explanatory gen. in the [[same]] [[clause]], [[thus]] preparing the [[way]] [[for]] the [[strict]] prepositional [[use]], διὰ δ' ἧκε σιδήρου, Od. 21.328; διὰ δ [[αὐτοῦ]] πεῖρεν ὀδόντων, Il. 16.405; [[with]] [[another]] adv., διὰ δ' [[ἀμπερές]], ‘[[through]] and [[through]],’ Il. 11.377, etc.— II. prep., (1) w. gen., ([[αἴγλη]]) δἰ αἰθέρος οὐρανὸν ἷκεν, Il. 2.458; διὰ νήσου [[ἰών]], ‘[[along]] [[through]],’ Od. 12.335 ; ὃ δ' ἔπρεπε καὶ διὰ πάντων, ‘[[among]],’ ‘[[amid]],’ Il. 12.104.—(2) w. acc., [[local]] ([[temporal]]) and causal; διὰ δώματα ποιπνύοντα, Il. 1.600; [[fig]]., μῦθον, ὃν οὔ κεν [[ἀνήρ]] γε διὰ [[στόμα]] [[πάμπαν]] ἄγοιτο, Il. 14.91; μή [[πως]] καὶ διὰ νύκτα [[καρηκομόωντες]] Ἀχαιοὶ | φεύγειν ὁρμήσωνται, ‘[[during]]’ the [[night]], Il. 8.511 ; δἰ ἀτασθαλίᾶς [[ἔπαθον]] [[κακόν]], ‘by [[reason]] of,’ Od. 23.67 ; καὶ νήεσσ' ἡγήσατ Ἀχαιῶν -[[Ἴλιον]] [[εἴσω]] | ἣν διὰ μαντοσύνην, ‘[[through]],’ ‘by [[means]] of,’ Il. 1.72.—The [[first]] [[syllable]] of [[διά]] is lengthened at the [[beginning]] of [[some]] verses, Il. 3.357, Il. 4.135, Il. 7.251, Il. 11.435.