Interval

subs.

P. διάλειμμα, τό, διάστημα, τό.

Intervening space between two armies: V. μεταίχμιον, τό, or pl.

Rest, breathing space: P. and V. παῦλα, ἡ, ἀνάπαυλα, ἡ, ἀναπνοή, ἡ, P. ἀνάπαυσις, ἡ, V. ἀμπνοή, ἡ.

Cessation: P. and V. διάλυσις, ἡ.

Stand at intervals, v.: P. διαλείπειν, διίστασθαι.

At intervals of (for space or time): P. διά (gen.).

At long intervals (of space or time): P. διὰ πολλοῦ.

At short intervals (of space or time): P. διʼ ὀλίγου.

After an interval (of time): P. and V. διὰ χρόνου, P. χρόνου διελθόντος.

After a long interval: Ar. διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου.

After an interval of two or three years: P. διελθόντων ἐτῶν δύο καὶ τριῶν.

After a moment's interval I go to law: Ar. ἀκαρῆ διαλιπὼν δικάζομαι (Nub. 496).

In the interval: of time, P. ἐν τῷ μεταξύ; see meantime; of space, P. and V. μεταξύ, ἐν μέσῳ.

There is no special season which he leaves as an interval: P. οὐδʼ ἐστὶν ἐξαίρετος ὥρα τις ἣν διαλείπει (Dem. 124).

They set out with a considerable interval between each man and his neighbour: P. διέχοντες πολὺ ᾖσαν (Thuc. 3. 22).

He placed the merchantmen at intervals of about two hundred feet from one another: P. διαλιπούσας τὰς ὁλκάδας ὅσον δύο πλέθρα ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων κατέστησεν (Thuc. 7, 38).

At intervals of ten battlements there were large towers: P. διὰ δέκα ἐπάλξεων πύργοι ἦσαν μεγάλοι (Thuc. 3, 21).