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πάρι^σ-ος , ον,
A.almost equal, evenly balanced, ἀγών, κίνδυνος, Plb.2.10.2, 5.69.8 ; “π. ταῖς δυνάμεσι” Id.1.13.12 ; “πέλαγος π. τῷ Ποντικῷ” Str.11.7.1 ; ἴση ἢ π. γε (sc. ἡ εὐθεῖα) Id.2.1.28.
II. in Rhet., of the clauses of a sentence, exactly balanced and even, “π. καὶ ὁμοιοτέλευτον” Arist. Rh.1410b1, cf. Phld. Rh.2.258 S. ; “ἰσόκωλα καὶ πάρισα” D.S.12.53 ; “ἀντίθετα καὶ π. καὶ ὁμοιόπτωτα” Plu.2.350d ; οὔτε π. τὰ κῶλα ἀλλήλοις εἶναι οὔτε παρόμοια parallel in structure, D.H. Comp.22, cf. 23 ; ἵνα τὸ τελευταῖον κῶλον π. καὶ ἐφάμιλλον τοῖς πρὸ αὐτοῦ γένηται ib.9 ; “π. σχῆμα” Hermog. Meth.16.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.53
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.7.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.13.12
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.10.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.69.8
    • Strabo, Geography, 2.1.28
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 22
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 23
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 9
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