διαδοχή

A. taking over from another, νεώς, of a trierarch, D. 50.1.

2. succession, ἄλλος παρ’ ἄλλου διαδοχαῖς πληρούμενοι by successions or reliefs, A. Ag. 313; διαδοχῇ τῶν ἐπιγιγνομένων Th. 2.36; ἡ τῶν τέκνων δ. Arist. Pol. 1334b39: freq. in dat. pl., ἀνάσσειν διαδοχαῖσιν ἐν μέρει ἐνιαυσίαισιν E. Supp. 406; διαδοχαῖς Ἐρινύων (apparently) by successive attacks of the Furies, Id. IT 79; γένους μακραῖς δ. by long pedigrees, Hdn. 1.2.2: with Preps., ἐκ διαδοχῆς ἀλλήλοις in turns, D. 4.21, cf. Antiph. 8 (but, in succession, Arist. Ph. 228a28); κατὰ διαδοχὴν χρόνου or κατὰ δ., Th. 7.27,28; κατὰ διαδοχάς Arist. Mu. 398a33; τὰ κατὰ διαδοχὴν κληρονομηθέντα POxy. 1201.7 (iii A. D.), cf. BGU 907.13 (iii A. D.).

II. concrete in military sense, relief, relay, ἡ δ. τῇ πρόσθεν φυλακῇ ἔρχεται X. Cyr. 1.4.17, cf. D. 21.164: metaph., σελήνη ἡλίου δ. Secund. Sent. 6.

2. the succession (i.e. successors), Luc. Nigr. 38; ἡ περὶ τὸν Πλάτωνα δ. the school of Plato, S.E. M. 7.190; Στωϊκή δ. Plu. 2.605b; ἡ Ἐπικούρου δ. IG 22.1009 (Epist. Plotinae); αἱ Διαδοχαί, title of work by Sotion on the Successions or successive heads of the Philosophic Schools, Ath. 4.162e, cf. D.L. Prooem. 1, 2.12.