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παραλέγω ,
A.pluck out superfluous hair, Hsch. :—Pass., “παραλέλεξαι” you have had your eyebrows plucked. Ar.Ec.904 (lyr.) ; “παραλελέχθαι τὰς τρίχας” Poll.2.35.
II. Med., παραλέγεσθαι τὴν γῆν sail or coast along, Hanno Peripl.11, D.S.14.55, Peripl.M.Rubr.60 ; “τὴν Ἰταλίαν” D.S.13.3 ; “τὴν Κρήτην” Act.Ap.27.8, 13 : abs., Str.13.1.22.
III. speak beside the purpose, wander in one's talk, rave, πολλὰ π. Hp.Epid.1.18, 26.δ᾽ :—Med., παραλεξάμενος speaking beside the point, Phld.Rh.1.101 S.
2. speak incidentally, “μῦθον” Plu.2.653e :—Pass., to be cited, “ἐπὶ παραδείγματος” Aen.Tact.4.7.
3. add to what one has said, BGU 665 ii 15 (i A. 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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    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 904
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.3
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.55
    • Strabo, Geography, 13.1.22
    • New Testament, Acts, 13
    • New Testament, Acts, 27.8
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