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παρά-πτωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.falling beside, lying side by side, Arist.GA718a28.
II. falling from the right way, “π. τοῦ καθήκοντος” Plb.15.23.5 : abs., = παράπτωμα 1, Id.16.20.5, LXX Je.22.21, Phld.Lib.p.17 O.; grammatical mistake, S.E.M.1.210.
III. ἡ τοῦ τόπου π. the situation of a place off the road, Plb.4.32.5.
IV. κατὰ <τὴν> τοῦ διώγματος π. in the course of . . , Id.11.17.3 ; κατὰ τὴν ἐπὶ τοὺς κελτοὺς π. as they were pursuing, Id.3.115.11.
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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