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παραιν-έω , 3sg. impf.
A.“παρῄνει” Th.1.139; Ion. “παραίνεε” Hdt.8.19: fut. “-έσω” S.OC1181, Ar.Pax1245, D.37.11, etc.; “-έσομαι” Pl.Mx.236e: aor. “παρῄνεσα” S.Ph.1434, Ar.Ra.1420, Isoc. 12.264; Ion. “-αίνεσα” Hdt.1.80: pf. “παρῄνεκα” Isoc.Ep.2.1, Luc.Im. 16:—Pass., aor. “παρῃνέθην” Hp.Fract.8: pf. inf. “παρῃνῆσθαι” Th.7.69:— exhort, recommend, advise, “παραίνεσε μὴ φειδομένους κτείνειν πάντα” Hdt.1.80; “ὧδε παραινέων, πέμψαντα δέεσθαι” Id.3.4; π. τινί c. inf., Ar. Ra.1132, Pl.Phdr.234b; “τοῖς ναύταις παραινῶ μὴ ἐκπεπλῆχθαι” Th.7.63; “π. τινί τι” Pi.P.6.23, A.Pr.309, S.OC464, etc.; τι Hdt.1.59, 5.31, etc.; π. τινί advise a person, A.Ch.903; “τοῖς πέλας” Th.5.9; “ἄλλῳ πονοῦντι ῥᾴδιον παραινέσαι” Philem.75.1:—Pass., “ὥσπερ πρότερον παρῃνέθη” Hp. l.c., cf. Th.7.69.
2. advise or recommend publicly, propose, “παρῄνει τοιάδε” Id.1.139, cf. IG12.90.43, etc.; “π. περὶ τῶν παρόντων” Th.2.13; οὐ π. advise not . . , c. inf. (cf. οὔ φημι, etc.), ib.18.
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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