διάδοχος

διάδοχ-ος, ον,

A succeeding a person in a thing:

1 c. dat. pers. et gen. rei, δ. Μεγαβάζῳ τῆς στρατηγίης his successor in the command, Hdt.5.26, cf. 1.162, etc.; θνητοῖς . . διάδοχοι μοχθημάτων succeeding them in, i.e. relieving them from, toils, A.Pr.464, cf. 1027;

σοι τῶνδε διάδοχος δόμων E.Alc.655

.

2 c. gen. rei only, δ. τῆς Ἀστυόχου ναυαρχίας succeeding to his command, Th.8.85;

δ. τῆς κληρονομίας Isoc.19.43

;

τῆς φιλοσοφίας Epicur.Fr.217

.

3 c. gen. pers. only, φέγγος ὕπνου δ. sleep's successor light, S.Ph. 867.

4 c. dat. pers. only,

δ. Κλεάνδρῳ X.An.7.2.5

: c. dat. rei,

ἔργοισι δ' ἔργα διάδοχα E.Andr.743

; κακὸν κακῷ δ. ib.803; quasiact., λύπη . . δ. κακῶν κακοῖς bringing a succession of evils after evils, Hec.588; ἀγὼν . . γόων γόοις (γόων bis codd.)

δ. Supp.72

(lyr.).

5 abs., διάδοχοι ἐφοίτων they went to work in relays or gangs, Hdt.7.22, cf. Th.1.110: neut. pl. as Adv., in turn, E.Andr.1200(lyr.).

6 as Subst., οἱ Δ. the Successors of Alexander, D.S.18.42.

b the lowest grade of court officials at Alexandria, OGI100.4, PAmh.2.36.5, PRyl.67.2 (both ii B. C.).

c substitute, deputy, BGU852.4 (ii A. D.), POxy.54.7 (iii A. D.).

d head of a school of philosophers,

τῆς σχολῆς Phld.Ind.Sto.53

;

δ. Στωικός IG3.661

, cf. 22.1009 (Epist. Plotinae).

e a kind of gem, Plin.HN37.157.