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|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [[pick out]], Hdt.8.107, 113, X.''Oec.''8.9, etc.; [[πτῶμα]] [[glean]] [[fallen]] [[olive]]s, ''PFay.''102.20; cf. [[διαλέγειν]]· [[ἀνακαθαιρέω|ἀνακαθαίρειν]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; [[select]], [[separate]], Pl.''Lg.''735b; [[examine]], [[check]] [[document]]s, ''PFay.''11.26 (ii B.C.), etc.<br><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">διαλέγων τὴν ὀπήν</b> [[pick]]ing [[open]] the [[hole]], to [[escape]], Ar.''Lys.''720; cf. διαλέξαι· διορύξαι, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">B</span> as Dep., [[διαλέγομαι]]: fut. διαλέξομαι Isoc.12.5 and 112; also [[διαλεχθήσομαι]] Id.9.34, D.18.252; διαλεγήσομαι ''Inscr.Perg.''5 (iii B.C.): aor. διελεξάμην Hom., Ar.''Fr.''343; Aeol. imper. ζάλεξαι Sapph.''Supp.'' 16.3; also [[διελέχθην]] Hdt.3.51, and always in Att. Inscrr., ''IG''22.657, etc.: less freq. aor. 2 διελέγην Arist.''Top.''154a34, 159a5, Scymn.7, ''IG''5(1).5.5 (Lacon.), ''GDI''5163a2 (Crete), ''PPetr.''3p.130 (iii B.C.), ''IG'' 22.1236; 3pl. διέλεγεν ''CIG''3656.7 (Cyzic.): pf. διείλεγμαι Pl.''Tht.'' 158c, Isoc.5.81: plpf. διείλεκτο D.21.119, but in pass. sense, Lys.9.5:—[[hold converse with]], c. dat. pers., μοι ταῦτα φίλος διελέξατο θυμός Il.11.407, cf. Archil.80, Hdt.3.50,51, Ar.''Nu.''425, etc.; πρὸς ἀλλήλους [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Politicus|Plt.]]'' 272c, etc.; <b class="b3">δ. τί τινι</b> or <b class="b3">πρός τινα</b>, [[discuss]] a [[question]] with another, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''2.10.1, 1.6.1; <b class="b3">δ. ὅρους</b> [[talk]] in [[definition]]s, Arist.''APo.'' 92b32; δ. περί τινος Isoc.3.8, D.18.252; ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὶ δ. Th.8.93; <b class="b3">δ. τινὶ μὴ ποιεῖν</b> [[argue with]] one against doing, Id.5.59; εἰ τουτὶ τὸ ῥῆμα, ἀλλὰ μὴ τουτὶ διελέχθην ἐγώ D.18.232; <b class="b3">οἱ νόμοι οὐδὲν τούτῳ δ.</b> [[have]] [[nothing]] to [[say]] to him, [[concern]] him not, Id.43.59; ὁ νομοθέτης οὔπω τινὶ δ. Aeschin.1.17; δ. πρός τι to [[argue]] on.., Arist.''Top.''159a7; or against.., Id.''Ph.''185a6: abs., to [[discourse]], [[reason]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''4.5.12; δ. περί τινος Isoc.5.109, etc., freq. in Pl., ''Ap.''33a, al.; γλῶσσα εὔτροχος ἐν τῷ δ. Plu.''Per.''7; [[reason]], [[calculate]], = [[διαλογίζομαι]], Id.''Marc.''18:—the Act. in med. sense, Hermipp.40; <b class="b3">οἱ διαλεγόμενοι</b>, of logicians, Polystr.p.6 W., al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Philosophy, [[practise dialectic]], [[elicit conclusions by discussion]], οὐκ ἐρίζειν ἀλλὰ δ. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 454a, cf. 511c, ''Tht.''167e, etc.<br><span class="bld">3</span> later, [[discourse]], [[lecture]], Philostr.''VS''2.21.3.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[use a dialect]] or [[use a language]], κατὰ ταὐτά τισι δ. Hdt.1.142; Φοινικιστί Plb.1.80.6; [[write in prose]], opp. [[ποιεῖν]], [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''20.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[speak articulately]], Arist.''HA''535b2.<br><span class="bld">5</span> in Att., euphemism for [[συνουσιάζω]], [[have intercourse]], Ar.''Ec.''890, ''Pl.''1082, Hyp.''Fr.''171, Plu.''Sol.'' 20, Hierocl.p.64A.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[have dealings with]], ''OGI''484.23 (Pergam.).