διαιτάω

A. διῄτων D.H. 2.75, also ἐδιαίτων AB 91, in compos. κατ‐εδιῄτα D. 49.19: fut. διαιτήσω Id. 29.58: aor. 1 διῄτησα Is. 2.31, Plu. Pomp. 12, etc.; ἀπ‐εδιῄτησα Is. 12.12, D. 40.17; κατεδ‐ Id. 21.84,96; μετεδ‐ Luc. DMort. 12.3; Dor. διαίτασα Pi. P. 9.68: pf. δεδιῄτηκα D. 33.31: plpf. κατ‐εδεδιῃτήκει Id. 21.85:—Med. and Pass., impf. διῃτώμην Pl.Com. 168, Lys. 32.8, etc., but 2 sg. ἐδιῃτῶ Lib. Or. 64.93; Ion. διαιτώμην, ‐ᾶτο, Hdt. 3.65, 4.95, part. διαιτεύμενος Hp. Ep. 19 (Hermes 53.64): fut. διαιτήσομαι Lys. 16.4:—pass. forms, aor. διῃτήθην Th. 7.87, Is. 6.15; διαιτήθην Hdt. 2.112 (aor. Med. only κατα‐): pf. δεδιῄτημαι Th. 7.77, later διῄτημαι Hdn. 6.9.5, Gal. 6.249: plpf. ἐξεδεδιῄτητο Th. 1.132.—The double augm. and redupl. is the rule in compds., but in the simple Verb occurs only in pf. (but δεδιαίτ‐ in Arist. Ath. 53.4 Pap.) and plpf.:—treat, τινά πως Hp. Aph. 1.7; δ. τοὺς νοσοῦντας οἵκοι Plu. Cat.Ma. 23; κατὰ ποτόν δ. Hp. Epid. 3.9:—Pass., διαιτᾶται σκέλος Id. Art. 58, cf. Porph. Abst. 1.2.

2. Med. and Pass., lead one's life, live, ἐπ’ ἀγροῦ Hdt. 1.120, cf. 123, Th. 1.6; παρά τινι Hdt. 2.112, S. OC 928; τοὐν δόμοισιν ἦν διαιτᾶσθαι γλυκύ ib.769; ἄνω, κάτω, live up or down-stairs, Lys. 1.9; ἐν Πειραιεῖ Id. 32.8; ἐν πύργῳ Aen.Tact. 11.3; πολλὰ ἐς θεοὺς νόμιμα δ. live in the observance of . ., Th. 7.77; ἐν ὅπλοις ἀεὶ καὶ πολεμικοῖς ἔργοις διῃτημένος Hdn.l.c.; δ. ἀκριβῶς And. 4.32; ἀνειμένως Th. 2.39, cf. 1.6, etc.; δίαιταν δ. μοχθηράν Pl. Ep. 330c.

II. to be arbiter or umpire, Is. 2.29: c. inf., διῄτησαν ἡμᾶς ἀποστῆναι ib. 31; οὗτος διαιτῶν ἡμῖν D. 21.84: c. acc. cogn., δ. δίαιταν Arist. Ath. 53.5; also οἱ τὴν Οἰνηΐδα διαιτῶντες the panel of arbitrators for the tribe Oeneis, D. 47.12.

2. c. acc. rei, arbitrate on, παισὶ φιλήματα Theoc. 12.34; νείκη D.H. 7.52.

b. decide, prove a thing, Pi. P. 9.68.

c. investigate, discuss, τι Str. 2.2.1,al.; περί τινος ib.3.8; criticize, τινάς Id. 1.2.1.

3. generally, regulate, govern, πόλιν Pi. O. 9.66: abs., αὐτοτελῶς Phld. D. 1.22, cf. 24.

4. reconcile, τινά τινι App. BC 5.93.

5. moderate, regulate, Hld. 3.10,al.; administer, τὰ ἐκ τῶν διαθηκῶν Luc. Tox. 23. (Perh. formed from δια‐ιτάω from διά and Ἰτάω(εἶμι 'ibo'); for sense 11 cf. διαβαίνω 11.4: δίαιτα is a post-verbal creation.)