διαλέγω,
pick out, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.107, 113, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.9, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πτῶμα glean fallen olives, [[ “PFay.” 102.20 ] Refs]; compare διαλέγειν· ἀνακαθαίρειν, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; select, separate, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 735b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; examine, check documents, [[ “PFay.” 11.26 (2nd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II διαλέγων τὴν ὀπήν picking open the hole, to escape, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 720 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare διαλέξαι· διορύξαι, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__B as deponent verb, διαλέγομαι: future διαλέξομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.5 and 112;] Refs 5th c.BC+] also -λεχθήσομαι [[[prev. author] 9.34, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.252] Refs 4th c.BC+]; -λεγήσομαι [[“Inscription Perg.” 5 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: aorist διελεξάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 343 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect imperative ζάλεξαι [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 16.3; also διελέχθην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.51 ] Refs 7th c.BC+], and always in Attic dialect Inscrr., [[ “IG” 22.657, etc.] Refs]: less frequently aorist 2 διελέγην [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 154a34, 159a5, 2nd c.BC: Scymnus Geographus 7, “IG” 5(1).5.5 (_Laconian dialect_), “GDI” 5163a2 (from Crete), “PPetr.” 3p.130 (3rd c.BC), “IG” 22.1236] Refs 4th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural διέλεγεν [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 3656.7 (Cyzic.)] Refs]: perfect διείλεγμαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 158c, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.81 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect διείλεκτο [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.119 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], but in passive sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—hold converse with, with dative person, μοι ταῦτα φίλος διελέξατο θυμός [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.407, compare 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 80, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.50, 51, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 425, etc.; πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 272c, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δ. τί τινι or πρός τινα, discuss a question with another, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.10.1, 1.6.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ὅρους talk in definitions, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 92b32; δ. περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.8, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.252; ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὶ δ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.93 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. τινὶ μὴ ποιεῖν argue with one against doing, [[ [prev. author] 5.59; εἰ τουτὶ τὸ ῥῆμα, ἀλλὰ μὴ τουτὶ διελέχθην ἐγώ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.232 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ νόμοι οὐδὲν τούτῳ δ. have nothing to say to him, concern him not, [[ [prev. author] 43.59; ὁ νομοθέτης οὔπω τινὶ δ. 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.17; δ. πρός τι ] Refs 4th c.BC+]to argue on.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 159a7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; or against.., [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 185a6 ] Refs]: absolutely, to discourse, reason, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.5.12; δ. περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.109, etc., frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, “Ap.” 33a, +others; γλῶσσα εὔτροχος ἐν τῷ δ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; reason, calculate, ={διαλογίζομαι}, [[ [prev. author] “Marc.” 18 ] Refs]:—the active in middle sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 40; οἱ διαλεγόμενοι, of logicians, Polystr. p.6 W., +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]