διήγησιν (diegesin)

διήγησιν is an Ancient Greek form of διήγησις, meaning “narrative, account”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.43: … ἰς τὴν φράσιν καὶ εἰς τὴν τάξιν καὶ εἰς τὴν ὑπόκρισιν. τὸν δὲ ῥητορικὸν λόγον εἴς τε τὸ προοίμιον καὶ εἰς τὴν διήγησιν καὶ τὰ πρὸς τοὺς ἀντιδίκους καὶ τὸν ἐπίλογον. Τὴν διαλεκτικὴν διαιρεῖσθαι εἴς τε τὸν περὶ τῶν σημαινομένων κα …

Plato, Phaedrus 266·2: … ἶμαι πρῶτον ὡς δεῖ τοῦ λόγου λέγεσθαι ἐν ἀρχῇ· ταῦτα λέγεις —ἦ γάρ; —τὰ κομψὰ τῆς τέχνης; ναί. δεύτερον δὲ δὴ διήγησίν τινα μαρτυρίας τʼ ἐπʼ αὐτῇ, τρίτον τεκμήρια, τέταρτον εἰκότα· καὶ πίστωσιν οἶμαι καὶ ἐπιπίστωσιν λέγειν τόν γ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.90.2: … τεῖσθαι, πάντα ἀναβάλλομαι ταῦτα εἰς τὸν περὶ τῆς πολιτείας αὐτῶν συγγραφησόμενον λόγον. νυνὶ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑξῆς δἱήγησιν τρέψομαι τὴν ἀνακεφαλαίωσιν τῶν ἐν ταύτῃ δεδηλωμένων τῇ βίβλῳ τῆς ἐχομένης γραφῆς ποιησάμενος ἀρχήν.

All forms of διήγησις (declension table)

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.