διαβολ-ή, ἡ,
(διαβάλλω see) false accusation, slander, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 148; ἐπὶ διαβολῇ εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.66, 73; δ. λόγου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.91 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διαβολὰς ἐνδέχεσθαι, προσίεσθαι, to give ear to them, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.80, 6.123 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διαβολὰς ἔχειν ὡς.. to have it slanderously said that.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.125; ὀνείδους καὶ δ. τυγχάνειν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.6; ἐνδ. καθεστηκέναι [prev. passage]; διαλύσειντὴνδ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.131 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: of charges not necessarily false or malicious, δ. ταῖς ἐμαῖς the accusations which I bring, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1005, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ πρὸς διαβολὴν κυροῦντα tending to discredit, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.15.9, compare 2.11.4 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐμὴ δ. prejudice against me, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19b; δ. εἰς ἐμέ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.30; δ. καθ᾽ αὑτοῦ παρέσχεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 4, compare 5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 58 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to δόξα, ill-repute, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 723 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δ. λῦσαι καὶ ποιῆσαι remove, create prejudice against an antagonist, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1415a27; δ. ἀπολύεσθαι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.59. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II (διαβάλλω [[ 111)] Refs] quarrel, enmity, κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας δ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65; ἡ πρὸς τὸ συγγενὲς δ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.479b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ πρὸς θάνατον δ. fear, aversion from it, [[[prev. work]110a: with _genitive_, δ. τοῦ πάθους [prev. work]456b; εἰς διαβολήν τινος] Refs] to withstand them, [[ LXX.Num.22.32. ] LXX]