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παρήκω ,
A.to have come alongside : hence, lie beside, stretch along, παρὰ πᾶσαν [τὴν θάλασσαν] Hdt.2.32, cf. 4.39,42, 9.15 ; “παρὰ τὸ ὀστέον” Hp.Loc.Hom.6 ; “πρὸς ἡλίου δύσιν μέχρι τοῦ Ὀσκίου ποταμοῦ” Th.2.96 ; “εἰς τὸ πλάγιον” X.Cyn.4.1 ; π. πρὸς τὸ πλῆθος extend to the length, Arist.Po.1459b22.
II. pass in any direction, “ἔνδοθεν στέγης μὴ 'ξω παρήκειν” S.Aj.742.
III. of Time, to be past, ὁ παρήκων χρόνος the past, opp. ὁ μέλλων, Arist.Ph.222b1 ; but also
2. εἰς τὸ παρῆκον τοῦ χρόνου up to the present time, Pl.Alc.2.148c.
3. ὡς ἂν παρήκῃ as occasion arises, Archig. ap. Orib.8.23.1.
IV. remit, of fever, Aret. CA 1.1 (v.l. -είκῃ), cf. 2.3 : metaph., come to an end, “παρήκοντος ἤδη τοῦ πολέμου” Parth.4.4.
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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