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παρα-φορά , Ion. παρα-ρή , Dor. παρφορά , ἡ,
A.going aside, παραφορὰς ποιεῖσθαι to make itself by-streams, of a river, Agatharch.23.
2. movemnt to and fro, Sor.1.73 : pl., Id.2.14.
3. waving of a sword, Onos.26.1.
II. mostly of the mind, derangement, distraclion, A. Eu.330(lyr.) ; “τῆς αἰσθήσιος” Aret.CD1.5 ; “π.ἐν μέθῃ” Id.SD1.6 ; frenzy, “π. καὶ ἔκστασις” Iamb.Myst.3.7 ; “π. τῆς διανοίας” Plu.2.249b ; ποδῶν π. irregular gait, Adam.2.21.
III. Act., bringing up, furnishing, purveying, “ζυγάστρων” SIG247 ii 21 (Delph., iv B.C.), cf. PLond.3.974 ii 5 (iv A.D.).
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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