διαβαίνω,
future -βήσομαι: aorist -έβην, Aeolic dialect participle ζάβαις [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 7.3: ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__I intransitive, stride, walk or stand with legs apart, εὖ διαβάς, of a man planting himself firmly for fighting, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.458, 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.21; ὡδὶ διαβάς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 688; τοσόνδε βῆμα διαβεβηκότος [prev. author] “Eq.” 77 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to συμβεβηκώς, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.14; πόδας μὴ -βεβῶτας 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 43, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.76; κολοσσοὶ -βεβηκότες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.779f ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; simply, spacious, δόμοι [[ 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 15: _metaphorically_, μεγάλα δ. ἐπί τινα] Refs 1st c.AD+] to go with huge strides against.., [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 32 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὀνόματα -βεβηκότα εἰς πλάτος great straddling words, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; [ποὺς] -βεβηκώς with a mighty stride, [[[prev. work] 17: with _accusative_ _cognate_, αἱ ἁρμονίαι διαβεβήκασι εὐμεγέθεις διαβάσεις [prev. work] 20 ] Refs]; also ἐξερείσματα χρόνων πρὸς ἑδραῖον -βεβηκότα μέγεθος [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 40.4. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II with accusative, step across, pass over, τάφρον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.50; πόρον᾽ Ωκεανοῖο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 292, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 865 (Lyric poetry); Ἀχέροντα 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus [same place]; ποταμόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75, etc., compare 7.35; also διὰ ποταμοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.2. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]