διαφυγεῖν (diaphygein)

διαφυγεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of διαφεύγω, meaning “escape”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 187 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.53.2: … ι βασανίσαι τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ εὑρεῖν ἢ διὰ μηνυτοῦ πονηρίαν τινὰ καὶ χρηστὸν δοκοῦντα εἶναι αἰτιαθέντα ἀνέλεγκτον διαφυγεῖν.

Plutarch, Pompey 12.3: ὠσάμενοι δὲ πολλῷ φόνῳ τοὺς πολεμίους ʽλέγονται γὰρ ἀπὸ δισμυρίων τρισχίλιοι διαφυγεῖν’ αὐτοκράτορα τὸν Πομπήϊον ἠσπάσαντο. φήσαντος δὲ ἐκείνου μὴ δέχεσθαι τὴν τιμὴν ἕως ὀρθὸν ἕστηκε τὸ στρατόπεδον …

All forms of διαφεύγω (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.