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παραλογ-ίζομαι , in keeping accounts,
A.cheat, D.27.29, 41.30, Philem.32 : c. dupl. acc., defraud of, “π. τρία ἡμιωβέλια τοὺς ναοποιούς” Arist.Rh.1374b26, cf.Isoc. 12.243 ; reckon fraudulently, “τὸν μισθόν” LXX Ge.31.41 ; “τὰ πορθμεῖα” Luc.DMort.4.1 : generally, defraud, τινα LXX Ge.29.25, PMagd.29.5 (iii B.C.) :—Pass., “δαπάνας παραλογισθείσας” OGI665.15 (Egypt, i A.D.).
II. reason falsely, use fallacies, Arist.Ph.186a10, 239b5.
b. draw a false inference, “π. ἡ ψυχή” Id.Po. 1460a25, Rh.1408a20 ; π. ὁ ἀκροατής ib.1401b8.
2. mislead by fallacious reasoning, “σφᾶς αὐτούς” Isoc.Ep.6.12 ; “σαυτόν” Aeschin.3.221, Phld.Rh.1.134S.; “ἀπάτῃ τινὶ π. τινάς” Aeschin.1.117 ; μεγάλα τὴν πόγιν π. Id.2.128 :— Pass., to be misled by fallacious reasoning, “π. ἡ διάνοια ὑπό τινων” Arist. Pol.1307b35, Iamb.Protr.2; “αἰτίαις” Phld.Lib.p.49 O. :—Pass. and Med. opposed, “παραλογισθῆναι καὶ παραλογίσασθαι” Arist. Top.108a27.
III. disguise, “τῆς ἐσθῆτος ὄψις παραλογιζομένη τὴν ἐπιδημίαν ἡμῶν” Plu.2.597a.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 117
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 128
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 221
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1460a.25
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 29
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    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 243
    • Isocrates, Ad filios Jasonis, 12
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 29.25
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 31.41
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4.1
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