Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παραφυής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραφυής παραφυές

Structure: παραφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. growing beside

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ αἱ πίστεισ διὰ τούτων εἰσί, φανερὸν ὅτι ταύτασ ἐστὶ λαβεῖν τοῦ συλλογίσασθαι δυναμένου καὶ τοῦ θεωρῆσαι περὶ τὰ ἤθη καὶ περὶ τὰσ ἀρετὰσ καὶ τρίτον τοῦ περὶ τὰ πάθη, τί τε ἕκαστόν ἐστιν τῶν παθῶν καὶ ποῖόν τι, καὶ ἐκ τίνων ἐγγίνεται καὶ πῶσ, ὥστε συμβαίνει τὴν ῥητορικὴν οἱο͂ν παραφυέσ τι τῆσ διαλεκτικῆσ εἶναι καὶ τῆσ περὶ τὰ ἤθη πραγματείασ, ἣν δίκαιόν ἐστι προσαγορεύειν πολιτικήν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 7:1)

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

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