Cf. the Synagoge, and delta 1228; for the meaning of “desire”, see delta 1227.
[1] See n.1 at delta 1228.
[2] Διώκειν is said of a lover by Sappho, 1 Lobel-Page, 21 εἰ δὲ μὴ φίλει, ταχέως διώξει κὀυκ ἐθέλοισα ; δ. καὶ φιλεῖν τινα Plato, Theaetetus 168Aa; Luke 17.23; of an object, see Homer, Iliad 17.75 ἀκίχητα δ. "pursue unattainable goals"; Sophocles, Ajax 997 σὸν μόρον "his doom"; Thucydides 2.63 τιμάς "honors". The reference to moral values or virtue (cf. Plato, Gorgias 480C τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ καλόν , 482E ἀλήθειαν ) is common in New Testament Greek (Romans 9.30 δικαιοσύνην ) and in Christian writers; see delta 1227 and note.
[3] This interpretation is probably a misunderstanding by the Suda or its source. The verb μεταδιώκειν does not occur in any meaning but the ones extant for διώκειν . For “follow after”, “pursue” cf. Herodotus 3.4; Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.3.3; Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 437.19 τὸ ἀκριβὲς ἐν τῷ λόγῳ “precision in language”. Like διώκω , μεταδιώκω can refer to virtues, as in Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 11.4.1 τὴν εὐσέβειαν τήν τε διὰ τῆς τῶν ἠθῶν κατορθώσεως πρὸς τὸν θεὸν φιλίαν [...] μετεδίωξαν, ἀλλ' οὐ σωμάτων ἡδονὴν “they pursued piety and the amity toward God [that can be achieved] through righteousness of habits, not physical pleasure”). For the sense of “searching for something”, “investigating” see Plato, Timaeus 46E τὰς πρώτας αἰτίας , “the primary causes”. Most likely, the meaning of the word in the anonymous historical passage about to be quoted in this entry is that the ships “moved in the direction” of many (different) places.
[4] Quotation (shorter version in ps.-Zonaras) unidentifiable; from the lost sections of the Excerpta Constantini (Adler). For 'the Ionian gulf' cf. iota 417.