διά-λῠσις, εως, ἡ,
(διαλύω) separating, parting, δ. τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τοῦ σώματος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 524b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. τοῦ σώματος its dissolution, [[ [prev. author] “Phd.” 88b, compare 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 297 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; τὴν τῶν γεφυρῶν οὐ δ. the failure to break the bridges, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; disbanding of troops, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; breaking up of an assembly, opposed to συλλογή, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 758d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ἀγορῆς the time of its breaking up, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν δ. ἐποιήσαντο broke off the action, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρεῶν δ. liquidation of debts, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 684d, compare “POxy.” 104.20 (1st c.AD), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. γάμου divorce, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 35, etc.; ἡ φθορὰ δ. οὐσίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 153b31 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: hence absolutely, dissolution, opposed to σύνθεσις, [[ [prev. author] “Cael.” 304b29, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 37; διάκρισις καὶ δ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 32a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to γένεσις, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.6] Refs 1st c.BC+]; resolution into elements, e.g. of words into letters, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; dissolution of friendship, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1164a9, 1 165b36 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of partnerships, κοινωνίαι καὶ -σεις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 632b; συμμαχία καὶ δ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1298a5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]