δια-σείω,
shake violently, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 1.6, uncertain in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 64.2; τι εἰς ἀταξίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 85e, compare 88a; τὴν κεφαλήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.435c: with _dative_, δ. τοῖν χεροῖν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 5th-4th c.BC: Socratis et Socraticorum Epistulae 50] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. τῇ οὐρᾷ to keep wagging the tail, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, shake people off, shake oneself free, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.56. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 confound, throw into confusion, τὰ τῶν Ἀθηναίων φρονήματα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109; τοὺς ἀκούοντας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.45.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; intimidate, oppress, [[ [prev. author] 10.26.4, compare “OGI” 519.14 (_passive_)] Refs]; browbeat, [[ PTaur. 1viii13(2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; extort money by intimidation from a person, [[ “PPar.” 15.37 (2nd c.BC), NT.Luke.3.14, etc.: with _genitive_, “PTeb.” 41.10 (2nd c.BC)] NT+2nd c.BC+]:—passive, [[ “POxy.” 284.5 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 of political affairs, throw into confusion, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 10. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__4 stir up, in passive, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 29. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__5 sound, take the measure of, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.580d,704d. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]