diadochi

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English

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Noun

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diadochi pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Diadochi
    • 1982, Bernard Frischer, The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece, University of California Press, page 271:
      The diadochi not only continued to propagate the typological portrait of Alexander, they also commissioned such portraits themselves.
    • 1993, Alexander Demandt, translated by Colin D. Thompson, History that Never Happened: A Treatise on the Question, what Would Have Happened If...?, McFarland, page 108:
      To be sure, one would have expected some wrangling about the diadochi, perhaps even a hard confrontation between party bosses and military leaders, but beerhall battles and street fighting, as in the days of the Weimar Republic, were scarcely to be expected.
    • 2011, Z. Richard Sawan, M. D., Revelation and the Mark of the Beast, Author Press, page 119:
      If you were to follow the wars of the diadochi, Alexander’s generals, after the death of Alexander the great, then the northern kingdom later becomes Syria only.

Italian

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diadochi m

  1. plural of diadoco