δ590Διάκονος
deacon, messenger
The alpha [is] long. "He was a clergyman, with the rank of deacon." And Philoctetes [in Sophocles says]: "but either they have died, or, as I think likely, the messengers considering me unimportant hastened their voyage…
Διάκονος· μακρὸν τὸ α. ὁ δὲ ἦν ἱερεύς, διάκονος τὴν τιμήν. καὶ Φιλοκτήτης· ἀλλ' ἢ τεθνήκασ', ἢ τὰ τῶν διακόνων, ὡς εἰκὸς οἶμαι, τοὐμὸν ἐν σμικρῷ μέρος ποιούμενοι, τὸν οἴκαδ'…