διάβολ-ος, ον,
slanderous, backbiting, γραῦς [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 878, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.24O. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διάβολόν τι, aliquid invidiae, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.24; τὸ δ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.61d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II substantive, slanderer, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 297, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 126a31, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.508d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; enemy, [[ LXX.Est.7.4, 8.1 ] LXX]: hence, = Sâtân,[[ [prev. work] 1 “Chr.” 21.1] Refs]; the Devil, [[NT.Matt.4.1, etc. ] NT]
__III adverb -λως injuriously, invidiously, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.15; χρῆσθαί τινι 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “Historia Arcana” 2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]