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παρατείνω , fut.
A.“-τενῶ” Hsch.: pf. “-τέτα^κα” Plu.2.832f :—stretch out along, beside, or near, “χεῖρες παρατεταμέναι” Hp.Fract. 13 ; “βραχίων παρὰ τὰς πλευρὰς παρατεταμένος” Id.Art. 1 ; extend, deploy, “τὴν φάλαγγα” X. An.7.3.48 ; “π. ἔλυτρον” Hdt.1.185 ; “παρετέτατο ἡ τάφρος” X.An. 1.7.15 : —Pass., extend along (v. infr. 11.1) ; to be stretched at length, laid low, Ar.Nu. 213.
2.. stretch on the rack, torture, Plu.2.135d : metaph., X. Cyr.1.3.11 :—Pass., to be tortured, “λιμῷ” Pl.Smp. 207b ; to be worn out, c. part., “παρετάθη μακρὰν σδὸν πορευθείς” X.Mem.3.13.6 ; παρατέταμαι λιπαρὰ κάπτων I am nigh dead with eating dainties, Ar.Fr.506.1 ; “γελῶντες . . ὀλίγου παρετάθησαν” Pl.Euthd.303b ; “παραταθήσεται ὑπὸ σοῦ . . θαμὰ λέγοντος” Id.Ly.204c ; but πολιορκίᾳ παρατενεῖσθαι ἐς τοὔσχατον will strain themselves to the uttermost, hold out to the last, Th.3.46.
3.. prolong, protract, “τοὺς λόγους” Arist.Po. 1455b2 ; μῦθον ib.1451b38 ; “ἐπὶ πλεῖον τὴν διάσκεψιν” Luc.Icar.29, cf. DMort.4.2 ; “τὴν ἀκρόασιν” Id.Im. 13 :—Pass., Id.Am.4, etc.; “ἐνεστῶτος τοῦ παρατεινομένου” A.D.Synt. 253.3.
b.. delay, “τὴν ἀπόδοσιν” POxy. 237 viii 10 (ii A. D.).
4.. apply a figure to a straight line, Pl.Men.87a : abs., Id.R.527a.
5.. κοιλίαν π. relax the bowels, Philistio ap. Ath.3.115e.
6.. lengthen in pronunciation, “ὄνομα” Luc.Luct.13 ; prolong a sound, of echo, Id.Dom.3.
II.. intr., stretch or lie beside or along, of a wall, a line of country, etc., Hdt.1.180 : c. acc. loci, τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἑσπέρην φέροντα ὁ Καύκασος παρατείνει ib. 203, cf. Th.4.8 :—Pass., “παρατέταται ὄρος” Hdt.2.8, cf. 4.38 ; ἡ δέ γ᾽ Εὔβοια. . ἡδὶ παρατέταται (with a pun on signf. 1.1 in next line), Ar.Nu.212 ; also “παρατείνειν παρὰ τὰ μέρη” Plb.6.31.5 : c. dat., “π. τῷ κόλπῳ” Str.8.2.2 : so metaph., “ψυχὴ μικρῷ σώματι -τείνουσα” Demetr. Lac.Herc.1055.10.
2.. extend, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐντέρου κάτω π. Arist.HA529a22 ; extend over, “πάντας χρόνους καὶ τόπους” Aristid.1.11 J.
3.. of Time, extend, ἐνιαυτοῦ μῆκος π. J.AJ 15.7.4 ; “παρατείνοντος τοῦ πότου” Parth.8.5 ; “πόλεμος π. εἰς ἔτη μ́” App. Syr.48 ; continue one's life, live, ἕως . . , μέχρι . . , Plu.2.832f, 839e ; “ἐπὶ τρεῖς γενεάς” Luc. Macr.3.
4.. as aux. Verb, c. part., ποῖ παρατενεῖς δεδιὼς ταῦτα ; how long will you go on fearing this ? Philostr. VA7.22, cf. 5.26.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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