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παραλλ-άσσω , Att. παράλλ-ττω , pf.
A.“παρήλλα^χα” Arist.Pr.872b11, Plu.Cim.1, Arr.Epict.3.21.23 :—cause to alternate, π. τοὺς ὀδόντας make the alternate teeth of the saw stand contrary ways, Thphr.HP5.6.3 ; π. τὰς ἀρχάς make the ends [of the bandages] overlap or cross, Hp.Fract. 29 ; παραλλάξας having transposed [the two], Pl.Tht.193c ; π. τῶν αἰσθήσεων τὰ σημεῖα transpose, interchange the impressions received from the senses, ib. 194d ; ἐὰν παραλλάξῃ τὴν τομήν transposes the caesura, Heph. 15.18 :—Pass., overlap, of the ends of broken bones, Hp.Fract.31 ; ὀδόντες παρηλλαγμένοι (in persons with hollow palate) Id.Epid.6.1.2.
2. change, alter, ὀλίγα π. Hdt.2.49 ; μίαν μόνον συλλαβὴν π. Aeschin.3.192, cf. Arist. Top.119a15 ; esp. alter for the worse, “π. φρένας χρηστάς” S.Ant.298 ; twist, “τὸν λόγον” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.258 :—freq. in Pass., to be altered, “πολὺ παρηλλάχθαι τὴν ἔξοδον πρὸς τὸν εἰθισμένον καιρόν” Plb.5.56.11, etc.; “τὸ κίνημα παρηλλαγμένον τῆς συνηθείας” Id.7.17.7 : hence παρηλλαγμένος, η, ον, strange, extraordinary, Id.2.29.1, 3.55.1; “παρηλλαγμένους τοῖς μεγέθεσιν ὄφεις” D.S. 17.90 ; ὑποδήματα π. peculiar footwear, Satyr.1.
3. of Place, pass by or beyond, “ἐνέδραν” X.HG5.1.12, Plb.5.14.3, etc.; “ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ παραλλάξῃ τὸ χωρίον” D.55.17 ; elude, avoid, Plu.Cam. 25 ; so Astrol., τὴν διάμετρον ἀκτῖνα π. Vett. Val.142.5 ; also, get rid of, “διακρούσασθαι καὶ π. τὸ πάθος” Plu.Caes.41.
4. go beyond, surpass, “τῷ τάχει π. τὰ ἄστρα” Arist.Mete.342a33 ; exceed in point of time, “τὴν παιδικὴν ἡλικίαν” Plu.Alc.7, Cim.1 : c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, γραμμέων συνθέσιος οὐδείς κώ με παρήλλαξεν [Democr.]299.
II. intr., deviate from one another, of two tunnels or the like , which start from opposite directions, and, instead of meeting, miss each other, “ὀλίγον τι π. τῆς χώρης” Hdt.2.11 ; of bones, ἄρθρον παραλλάξαν displaced, Hp.Art.17 ; πόροι παραλλάττοντες deviating, not in line, opp. κατάλληλοι, Arist.Pr. 905b8, cf. 890b39.
2. alternate, Id.APr.42b15.
3. differ or vary from, “τῶν πολλῶν . . δικαίων” Pl.Lg.957b ; “πολύ τι τῶν ἄλλων” Thphr.HP4.10.5 ; τῶν προκειμένων Hdn.Gr.2.948 ; “παραλλάξουσιν ἀλλήλων κατὰ παρρησίαν” Phld.Lib.p.43 O.; “π. ἀπότινος” Arr.Epict.3.21.23 : abs., differ, vary, “ὀλίγον παραλλάσσοντες” Hdt.7.73 ; “ἡ χρεία π. μικρόν” Arist.Pol. 1254b24 ; “μήκη παραλλάττοντα” Epicur.Ep.2p.43U.; “μικρὸν ταῖς γλώτταις” Str.4.1.1 ; “π. κατὰ τὰς ὀσμὰς καὶ τοὺς χυλούς” Thphr.HP1.12.3 ; “τοσοῦτον τῆς δόξης παραλλαττούσης” Isoc.9.25 ; τὸ παρηλλαχός the changeable, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.129 ; also, of persons, οἱ παρηλλαχότες those whose character has changed, ib.125.
b. impers., οὐ σμικρὸν παραλλάττει οὕτως ἔχον ἢ ἄλλως it makes no small difference, Pl.Tht.169e.
4. π. τοῦ σκοποῦ go aside from the mark, ib.194a : metaph., “π. τῶν φρενῶν” Lys.Fr.90 : abs., οὐχ ὑπὸ γήρως οὐδὲ νόσου π. Plu.Luc.43.
5. change direction, of the wind, Arist.Pr.945a36 ; deviate from the straight course, “παραλλάξαντι ἐξ Ἀβύδου ὡς ἐπὶτὴν Προποντίδα” Str.13.1.22 ; οὐδαμῇ οὐδὲν π. Pl.R.53ob ; go astray, be out of one's wits, Id.Ti.27c, 71e ; λόγοι παραλλάσσοντες delirious, E.Hipp.935 ; degenerate, decline, “εἰς μοναρχίαν ἐπαχθῆ” Plu. Rom.26.
6. slip aside or away, “παραλλάξασα διὰ χερῶν βέβακεν ὄψις” A.Ag.424 (lyr.).
7. to be superior to, c. gen., π. ἅλιος ἄστρων Epigr. ap. D.L.8.78 ; “π. ταῖς ψυχαῖς” Sosyl.1 J.; τῇ διαφορᾷ τοῦ καθοπλισμοῦ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν παραλλάττων superior in . . , Plb.18.25.2 ; “κατά τι” Iamb.Comm.Math.8.
8. Geom., of figures, coincide partially when applied, Euc.1.8, 3.24, Aristarch.Sam.8.
9. Astron., display parallax, Ptol.Alm.5.11.
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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