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παραφέρω , poet. παρφέρω , fut.
A.“παροίσω” S.OC1675(lyr.) :—Pass., aor. 1 παροισθέντι: παρενεχθέντι, Hsch. :—bring to one's side, esp. of meats, serve, set before one, Hdt.1.119, X.Cyr.1.3.6, etc. ; “π. ποτήρια” Ar.Fr.466 ; “πάρφερε τὸν σκύφον” Sophr.15 ; τὰς κεφαλὰς π. exhibit them, Hdt.4.65 ; “μάστιγάς τε καὶ κέντρα π. ἐς μέσον” Id.3.130 :—Pass., to be set on table, served, Id.1.133 ; “τοῦ ἀεὶ παραφερομένου ἀπογεύονται” Pl.R.354b ; τὰ π. Luc.Merc.Cond.26.
2. bring forward, allege, cite, “νόμον” Antipho 3.4.8, cf. PFlor.48.8 (iii A.D.) ; “π. καινὰ καὶ παλαιὰ ἔργα” Hdt.9.26; “λόγους” E.IA981, cf. S.OC1675 (lyr.); “π. αὑτὸν ἐν σκώμματος μέρει” Aeschin.1.126, cf. 132 ; πίστεις π. τοῦ μὴ . . D.H.7.27 ; μάρτυρα Eust.ad D.P.306, cf. PAmh.2.81.12 (iii A.D.), etc.
3. hand over, “ξύνθημα παρφέροντι ποιμέσιν λόχων” E.Ph.1140.
4.Pass., come up, hasten along, Arist.HA534a3.
II. carry beside, [“λαμπάδας] ἵπποις” E.Hel.724.
III. carry past or beyond, Pl.R.515a, etc. ; π. τὴν χεῖρα wave the hand, of gesture in speaking, D.18.232 ; π. τὸν βραχίονα παρὰ τὰς πλευράς swing it in a vertical plane parallel to the sides, opp. lifting the elbow outwards, Hp.Art.12 :—Pass., to be carried past or beyond, Th.4.135 ; “δρόμῳ παρενεχθέντας” Plu.Mar.35, cf.Sull.29 ; πρὸς κοντὸν π. Id.Dio 25 ; τοῦ χειμῶνος παραφερομένου while it was passing, Id.Pel.10.
2. turn aside or away, “ἑκάστου π. τὴν ὄψιν” X.Cyn.5.27 ; π. τοὺς ὑσσούς put them aside, Plu.Cam.41 ; put away, avert, “ποτήριον ἀπό τινος” Ev.Marc.14.36 ; but also, turn towards an object, “κάτω ὁρᾶν καὶ μηκέτι παρενεγκεῖν τὸν ὀφθαλμόν” Luc.DMeretr. 10.2 ; “τὴν αὐτὴν αἴσθησιν παραφέρω πρὸς ἑκάτερον” Dam.Pr.414.
3. Pass., move in a wrong direction, of paralysed limbs, “τὸ παραφερόμενον” Arist. EN1102b22 ; π. ἐν ταῖς χερσίν, of feigned madness, LXX 1 Ki. 21.13 ; π. τοῖς σκέλεσι, of a drunken man, D.L.7.183 ; τὸ βλέμμα παρενήνεκται is distorted, Phryn.PSp.112B.
4. mislead, lead astray, Plu.2.41d :—Pass., παραφέρεσθαι τῷ τέρποντι πρὸς τὸ βλάπτον ib.15d ; err, go wrong, Pl.Phlb.38d, 60d ; “ἴσως μὲν ἀληθοῦς τινος ἐφαπτόμενοι, τάχα δ᾽ ἂν καὶ ἄλλοσε -φερόμενοι” Id.Phdr.265b ; παρενεχθείς (sc. τῆς γνώμης) mad, Hp.Prorrh.1.21.
5. change, γνώμην alter the text of a decree, App.BC3.61 ; παρενεχθέντος τοῦ ὀνόματος ib.2.68 ; “π. τὸ πεπρωμένον” Id.Syr.58.
IV. sweep away, of a river, Plu.Tim. 28, cf. D.S.18.35 (Pass.) ; τοῦ χρόνου καθάπερ ῥεύματος ἕκαστα π. Plu. 2.432b :—Pass., to be carried away, “σέ, Βάκχε, φέρων ὑπὸ σοῦ τἄμπαλι παρφέρομαι” AP11.26 (Marc.Arg.).
V. let pass, τὰς ὥρας παρηνέγκατε τῆς θυσίας Orac. ap. D.21.53 ; let slip, “τὸ ῥηθέν” Plu.Arat.43 :— Pass., slip away, escape, X.Cyn.6.24.
VI. overcome, excel, “τινά τινι” Luc. Charid.19.
B. intr., to be beyond or over, ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων παρενεγκουσῶν, ἡμέρας οὐ πολλὰς παρενεγκούσας, a few days over, more or less, Th.5.20, 26.
2. differ, vary, as dialects, Xanth.1 ; to be altered, “παρενεγκόντος τοῦ ὀνόματος” Conon46.4 ; “παραφέροντα ἢ κατ᾽ ἄλλον τρόπον διαλλάττοντα” Phld.Sign.20 ; π. παρά τι differ from . . , D.C.59.5 ; “πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν” Eun.Hist.p.237 D.
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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