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παρα-βάτης [βα^], poet. and early Att. παραιβάτης (IG12.5, etc.), ου, ὁ, (παραβαίνω I)
A.one who stands beside: prop. the warrior or combatant who stands beside the charioteer, “ἂν δ᾽ ἔβαν ἐν δίφροισι παραιβάται ἡνίοχοί τε” Il.23.132, cf. D.S.5.29; “παραιβάτας ἔστησαν ἐς τάξιν δορός” E.Supp.677; “ἀναλαβεῖν τοὺς παραβάτας” X.Cyr.7.1.29, etc.; “δύο δ᾽ εἰσὶν ἐπὶ τῷ ἅρματι π. πρὸς ἡνιόχῳ” Str.15.1.52: = Att. ἀποβάται, acc. to D.H.7.73; fem. παραιβάτις , A.R.1.754.
2. light troops (velites) who ran beside the cavalry, Plu.Aem.12.
II. (παραβαίνω II. 1) transgressor, A.Eu. 553 (lyr., in poet. form παρβάτης ), cf. Sm.Ps.16(17).4; “π. θεῶν” Polem. ap. Macr.Sat.5.19.29; “π. νόμου” Ep.Rom.2.25.
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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