δίαιτα [ῐ], ἡ,
way of living, mode of life, τὰ τῆς οἵκοι δ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 352 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πτωχῷ δ.[[ [prev. work] 751; σκληρὰς δ. ἐκπονεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 525.5; δ. εὐτελέστεραι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.2; δ. ἔχειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 490 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δίαιταν ἔχειν ἐν Κροίσου, παρὰ τῇσι γυναιξί, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.36, 136; ξυνήθη τὴν δ. μεθ᾽ ὅπλων ποιεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐν ὕδατι pass one's life, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68 (but δ. ἐποιήσατο τῶν παίδων] Refs 5th c.BC+] he made them live, [[ [prev. author] 2.2); δ. τῆς ζόης μεταβάλλειν [prev. author] 1.157, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ τὴν δ. at table, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.519b. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 δίαιτα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· τὸ φαγεῖν, τὸ πιεῖν, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II dwelling, abode, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1096a27; κοινὴ θεῶν ἁπάντων δ. “OGI” 383.27 (1st c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δ. πολιτικαί public buildings, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 15.9.6 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; room (or, more often, suile of rooms), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 114, “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 3268 (probably Smyrna), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 15; τὰς τῶν θεραπόντων δ. [prev. author] 2.515f ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sailors' quarters in a ship, Moschion cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.207c ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of fishes, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 398b32. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]