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παρα-κελεύομαι ,
A.recommend an action to one, prescribe, “σοὶ ἕτερα τοιαῦτα” Hdt.1.120, cf. Th.7.63, Lys.28.15, etc.; ταῦτα π. give this advice, Ar.V.530, Pl.Ap.31b; π. τινί c. inf., Id.Smp.221a, al.; “τοῖς συμμάχοις π. μὴ ἀθυμεῖν” X.HG1.1.24; π. ὅκως μὴ παρήσουσι . . Hdt.8.15, cf. Pl.Mx.248d; ὅτι . . X.HG1.1.14; “π. πρός τινας μὴ ὑπομένειν” Aeschin.2.1.
II. exhort, encourage, τινι Isoc. 9.79, Pl.Phd.60e, etc.; ὁ Νικίας τοιαῦτα παρακελευσάμενος having delivered this address, Th.6.69: abs., encourage one another by shouting, Hdt.9.102; “ἀλλήλοις π.” X.An.4.2.11; ἐν ἑαυτοῖς π. ὡς . . Th.4.25.
III. Act., Hp.Decent.16, Plb.7.16.2, 16.20.8:—Pass., παρακεκέλευστο orders had been given, Hdt.8.93; “τὰ παρακελευόμενα ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν” Pl.Ep.333a; “χαίρειν παρεκελεύοντο” Philostr.VA5.27.
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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