διʼ (di)

διʼ is an Ancient Greek form of διά, meaning “through; because of (+gen./acc.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 8,873 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.237: δὴ τότʼ ἴσαν μετὰ νῆα διʼ ἄστεος, ἔνθα περ ἀκταὶ

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.2: … φαιρήσεται, τῆς τε καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαίου τροφῆς πανταχοῦ ἂν ἡγούμενοι ἐπικρατεῖν, οὐ χαλεπῶς ἀπανίσταντο, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ οὔτε μεγέθει πόλεων ἴσχυον οὔτε τῇ ἄλλῃ παρασκευῇ.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.37: … πη παιδία γεννᾷ. ποτὲ αὐτῆς ἐν ἀγορᾷ καὶ θοἰμάτιον περιελομένης συνεβούλευον οἱ γνώριμοι χερσὶν ἀμύνασθαι, νὴ Δίʼ, εἶπεν, ἵνʼ ἡμῶν πυκτευόντων ἕκαστος ὑμῶν λέγῃ, εὖ Σώκρατες, εὖ Ξανθίππη. ἔλεγε συνεῖναι τραχείᾳ γυναικὶ καθά …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.