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παραβολ-ή , ἡ,
A.juxtaposition, comparison, “τῶν βίων” Pl.Phlb.33b; “π. καὶ σύγκρισις” Plb.1.2.2; ἐν παραβολῇ by juxtaposition, Arist.Top.104a28, cf. 157a14; “ἐκ παραβολῆς” Id.Rh.1420a4.
2. comparison, illustration, analogy, “τὴν π. ἀπρεπῆ πεποιῆσθαι” Isoc.12.227; π. δὲ τὰ Σωκρατικά (distd. from λόγος, apologue) Arist.Rh.1393b3; “ἐκ τῶν θηρίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π.” Id.Pol.1264b4.
3. NT, parable, Ev.Marc.12.1, al.; type, Ep. Hebr.9.9, 11.19.
4. by-word, proverb, LXX Ez.18.2, Ev.Luc.4.23; in bad sense, “εἰς π. ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι” LXX Ps.43(44).14, cf. Wi.5.3.
5. objection to an argument, Phld.Rh.1.5 S.
II. moving side by side, ἐκ παραβολῆς [νεῶν] μάχεσθαι to fight a sea-fight broadside to broadside, Plb.15.2.13, cf. D.S.14.60.
III. sidelong direction, obliquity, “διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ π.” Plu.Arat.22.
IV. venture, D.S.27.17, v.l. in Th.1.131.
V. Astron., conjunction, “παραβολαὶ ἀλλήλων” Pl.Ti.40c, cf. Procl. in Ti.3.146 D., Plot.3.1.5, Iamb.Myst.9.4: also f.l. for περιβολή, τοῦ ἡλίου Max.Tyr.17.9.
VI. Math., division, opp. multiplication, Dioph.4.22; quotient, ib.10: hence, section produced by division of a line, Nicom.Ar.2.27.
VII. Geom., application, “π. τῶν χωρίων” Pythag. ap. Procl.in Euc.p.419 F.; τὰ ἐκ τῆς π. γενηθέντα σημεῖα, of the foci of an ellipse or hyperbola, points found by application of an area to the axis, Apollon.Perg.Con.3.45, cf. 48.
2. parabola, because the square on the ordinate is equal to a rectangle whose height is equal to the abscissa applied to the parameter, ib.1.11.
VIII. = παράβολον (v. παράβολος III. 1), Arist.Oec.1348b13 (vv. ll. παράβολον, -βόλιον), OGI41.5 (Samos, iii B. C., pl.). PPetr.3p.232 (iii B. C., pl.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.60
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 227
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 18.2
    • New Testament, Luke, 4.23
    • Plato, Philebus, 33b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 40c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.131
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.2.13
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.2.2
    • Plutarch, Aratus, 22
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