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παράφρων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράφρων παράφρον

Structure: παραφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. wandering from reason, out of one's wits, deranged

Examples

  • τραπομένων δὲ τούτων, ὡσ κατεῖδε τὸν κονιορτὸν ὁ Πομπήϊοσ καὶ τὸ περὶ τοὺσ ἱππέασ πάθοσ εἴκασεν, ᾧ μὲν ἐχρήσατο λογισμῷ χαλεπὸν εἰπεῖν, μάλιστα δὲ ὅμοιοσ παράφρονι καὶ παραπλῆγι τὴν διάνοιαν, καὶ μηδ’ ὅτι Μάγνοσ ἐστὶ Πομπήϊοσ ἐννοοῦντι, μηδένα προσειπὼν ἀπῄει βάδην εἰσ τὸν χάρακα, πάνυ τοῖσ ἔπεσι πρέπων ἐκείνοισ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 72 1:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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