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διαβῆναι (diabenai)

διαβῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of διαβαίνω, meaning “cross over, step across”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.84.3: ὡς δὲ γίγνονται ἐπ’ αὐτῷ, ἐσπίπτουσιν οὐδενὶ κόσμῳ ἔτι, ἀλλὰ πᾶς τέ τις διαβῆναι αὐτὸς πρῶτος βουλόμενος καὶ οἱ πολέμιοι ἐπικείμενοι χαλεπὴν ἤδη τὴν διάβασιν ἐποίουν· ἁθρόοι γὰρ ἀναγκαζόμενο …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 2.14.2: … ασιλεύει Περσῶν, οὔτε πέμψαι τινὰ Ἀλέξανδρον παρʼ αὐτὸν ἐς βεβαίωσιν τῆς πάλαι οὔσης φιλίας τε καὶ ξυμμαχίας, διαβῆναί τε ξὺν στρατιᾷ ἐς τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ πολλὰ κακὰ ἐργάσασθαι Πέρσας.

All forms of διαβαίνω (conjugation 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.