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παρακι_ν-έω ,
A.move aside, disturb, τι Pl.R.591e (unless intr., v. infr. 11.2): abs., raise troubles, enter into conspiracies, D.15.12, Luc.Rh. Pr.5 ; τὸ -κινοῦν μέρος the revolutionary element, D.H.7.55.
2. excite violently, madden, Thphr.HP9.19.1 :—Pass., to be distracted, Arg.S.Aj. ; εἴς τι to be violently excited or incited to . . , Luc.Hist. Conscr.1 ; “ὑπόθερμος καὶ παρακεκινημένος” Id.Cal.5 ; later, simply, urge, c. inf., Mantiss.Prov.2.46.
3. metaph., stir up, i.e. raise a question aboui, “τὸν Ἀριστοτέλη” Plu.2.656c.
II. intr., to be disturbed, become turbid, Thphr.CP6.7.6.
2. shift one's ground, change, Pl.R.54oa, 591e (cf. 1.1), D.H.3.10.
3. to be highly excited or impassioned, “ἐπὶ τοῖς ὡραίοις” X.Mem.4.2.35 ; πρὸς τὰς ἡδονάς Theopomp. Hist.111 ; μηδὲν παρακινέειν feel no sexual impulse, Hp.Aër.22 ; of political unrest, to be in a state of ferment, “π. τὰ τάγματα” Plu.Galb. 13 ; to be out of one's senses, “παρακεκινηκὼς ὑφ᾽ ἡλικίας” Com.Adesp. 885 ; νουθετεῖται . . ὡς παρακινῶν as out of his senses, Pl.Phdr.249d ; “τῇ διανοίᾳ παρακεκινηκώς” D.S.24.3, cf. 10.14.
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 (9):
    • Demosthenes, On the Liberty of the Rhodians, 12
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 10.14
    • Plato, Republic, 591e
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 249d
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.2.35
    • Plutarch, Galba, 13
    • Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, 5
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.10
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.55
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