δῐδασκᾰλ-ία, ἡ,
teaching, instruction, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.102, 5th c.BC: Evenus Elegiacus 1, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “νόμος” 2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.24, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 493b, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ποιεῖσθαι, with accusative et infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. παρέχειν serve as a lesson, [[[prev. work] 87 ] Refs]; ἐκ δ., opposed to ἐξ ἔθους, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1103a15. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 elucidation, [[ [prev. author] “Po.” 1456b5. ] Refs]
__3 official instructions, [[ PLips. 64.24 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; πρὸς διδασκαλίαν for information, [[ POxy. 1101.4 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II training, rehearsing of a chorus, etc., δ. τῶν χορῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 501e, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 147.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1096a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, the dramas produced, [[ [prev. author] 2.839d, “Cim.” 8, “Per.” 5, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.37 (3rd c.BC: Dioscorides Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.2 διδασκαλίαι, αἱ, Catalogues of the Dramas, their writers, dates, and success, title of compilation by [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus and others, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 5.26, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1155, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]