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παραπλέω , Ion. παραπλευρ-πλώω Orph.A.733, 1271 : Ep. aor. 2 παρέπλων (v. infr.) :—
A.sail by or past, abs., οἴη δὴ κείνῃ γε παρέπλω . . Ἀργώ was the only ship that sailed through that way, Od.12.69, cf. X.An.5.1.11 ; ἐν χρῷ παραπλέοντες sailing close in, Th.2.84, cf. 90 ; “π. παρὰ τὰς πρῴρας τῶν νεῶν” Hdt.7.100 ; π. τὴν Ἔφεσον sail past Ephesus, Act.Ap. 20.16.
2. coast by or along, “ὃς τῆς Ἀττικῆς ταῦτα μὴ -πέπλωκε” Hdt.4.99, cf. Isoc. 15.123 ; “ἐς Σικυῶνα” Th.1.111 ; “ἐνθένδε μὲν εἰς Σινώπην π., ἐκ Σινώπης δὲ εἰς Ἡράκλειαν” X.An.5.6.10, cf. D.35.31 ; “ἐκεῖθεν” X.HG5.4.61 ; π. ἀπὸ κάλω, v. κάλως.
3. metaph., π. τὰς συμφοράς sail past, escape them, Amphis 3.4.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, 31
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