διήγησις, διηγήσεως, ἡ (διηγέομαι), "a narration, narrative: Luk_1:1; used of the Gospel narratives also in Eusebius, h. e. 3, 24, 7; 3, 39, 12; cf. Grimm in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. 1871, p. 36. (Plato, Aristotle, Polybius; Sir_6:35 (); , etc.; 2Ma_2:32 2Ma_6:17.)

διήγησις diēgēsis 1x a narration, relation, history, Luk_1:1

δι -ήγησις , -εως , ἡ ( < διηγέομαι ), [in LXX : Jdg_7:15 H4557 Hab_2:6 H2420 ), freq . in ( Sir_6:35 , al. ), 2Ma_2:32 ; 2Ma_6:17 ;] a narrative: Luk_1:1 ( cf. Milligan , NTD , 130).†

διήγησις [page 161] διήγησις is used ter in the letter of Aristeas to Polycrates (1, 8, 322) to describe the narrative he has to unfold one thinks of the first and last lines of Sordello. The noun occurs twice in PSI I. 85 (iii/A.D.), from a rhetorical treatise, defining what was technically known as ἡ χρεία : see above s.v. ἀπομνημόνευμα . The χρεία is to be concise : .8 Διὰ τί σύντομον ; ὅτι πολλάκις ἐκταθὲν ἢ διήγησις γίνεται ἢ ἄλλο τι . Δ . therefore implies some fullness of narrative, which suits the use of the word in the Preface of Lk. MGr keeps the -μα noun διήγημα narrative with dimin. διηγηματάκι .

δι-ήγησις, -εως, ἡ (διηγέομαι), [in LXX: Jdg.7:15 מִסְפָּר Hab.2:6 חִידָה), frequently in (Sir.6:35, al.), 2Ma.2:32 2Mac 6:17 ;] a narrative: Luk.1:1 (cf. Milligan, NTD, 130).† (AS)