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παρά-θεσις , εως, ἡ,
A.juxtaposition, “θέσις καὶ π.” Hp. Off.3: in Tactics, “π. λόχου ἑτέρῳ λόχῳ” Arr.Tact.7.1; αἱ κατὰ τὰς π. μίξεις, opp. αἱ δι᾽ ὅλων κράσεις, Antip.Stoic.3.255, cf. Chrysipp.ib.2.153,220; opp. ἔγκρασις, κατάκρασις, Theol.Ar.9, 10; κατὰ παράθεσιν, opp. κατ᾽ ἀλληλουχίαν, ib.4.
2. Gramm., juxtaposition, opp. com- position (σύνθεσις), as in Διόσ-κοροι, opp. Διο-γενής, EM278.25,649.14; also, addition, π. προθετική addition of prepositions, A.D. Synt.333.7, cf. Pron.23.12, al.
3. a mode of wrestling, Plu.2.638f (pl.).
4. Pass., juxtaposition, neighbourhood, Plb.2.17.3, etc.; “κατὰ παράθεσιν” Id.4.28.2; ἐκ παραθέσεως on comparison, Id.3.62.11, cf. Aret.SA2.2, etc.; “ἐκ τῆς π. καὶ συγκρίσεως τῶν λέγεσθαι μελλόντων” Plb.16.29.5, etc., cf. Chor. in Rev.Phil.1.71.
II. dish or dinner set before people, “τοὺς διακόνους τοὺς τὰς π. φέροντας” Plb.30.26.6, cf. LXX 2 Ch. 11.11, Ath.14.664c; “ὑγρῶν π.” Plb.13.2.2: pl., supplies, PPetr.3p.133 (iii B. C.).
2. offering of food to a god, PMag.Berol.1.23, PMag.Par.1.2887.
III. storing up, “τῶν χορηγιῶν” Plb.3.17.11; “οἴνου καὶ ἀκροδρύων” D.S.3.73; store of provisions, “αἱ εἰς τὰ στρατόπεδα π.” Plb. 2.15.3; π. πυρῶν, ὕδατος, IG12(7).515.77 (Amorgos), Ath.Mech.13.9; “ὅπλων” OGI90.22 (Rosetta, ii B. C.): gen. “παραθέσεως” for storage, IG5 (1).870, al. (Sparta); ἐσχηκέναι ἐν παραθέσει on deposit, POxy.1039.7 (iii A. D.), etc.
IV. ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων π. putting down or mention of names, Plb.3.36.3; τῶν μαρτυριῶν citation of instances, D.L.7.180: hencein Gramm., instance, A.D.Synt.5.13 (pl.), al.
V. laying of advice before others, suggestion, “αἱ τῶν φίλων π.” Plb.9.22.10, al.
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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    • Old Testament, 2 Chronicles, 11.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 13.2.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.29.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.15.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.17.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.17.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.36.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.62.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.28.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.22.10
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 3
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.2
    • Arrian, Tactica, 7.1
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.73
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