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παραπλήσιος , α, ον Hdt.1.202, 4.128, Isoc.7.78, etc. ; also ος, ον Th.1.84, Plb.1.37.8 :—
A.coming alongside of : hence, coming near, nearly resembling ; of numbers, nearly equal, about as many ; of size, about as large ; of age, about equal ; etc. :
1. abs., Hdt.4.128, etc. ; τοιαῦτα καὶ π. such and such-like, Th.1.22 ; τὰς πράξεις ὁμοίας καὶ π. ἀποβαίνειν Isoc.l.c. ; “ταὐτόν ἐστι σοφιστὴς καὶ ῥήτωρ, ἢ ἐγγύς τι καὶ παραπλήσιον” Pl.Grg.520a ; “ναυσὶ παραπλησίαις τὸν ἀριθμόν” Th. 7.70 ; “ἱππεῖς π. τὸ πλῆθος” X.HG4.3.15 ; “ἀγωνίζεσθαι πρὸς π. ἱππέας” Id.Eq.Mag.8.17.
2. freq. c. dat., ἐν τῇ ναυμαχίῃ παραπλήσιοι ἀλλήλοισι ἐγίνοντο were about equal, of a drawn battle, Hdt.8.16 ; “νῆσοι Λέσβῳ μεγάθεα παραπλήσιαι” Id.1.202 ; “ἐσθὴς τῇ Κορινθίῃ παραπλησιωτάτη” Id.5.87 ; “π. τούτῳ καὶ ὅμοιον” D.19.196 ; ὅμοι᾽ ἢ π. τούτοις ib.307 : with dat. of the person for dat. of that which belongs to the person, “ἔπαθε παραπλήσια τούτῳ” Hdt.4.78, cf. Plb.1.14.2, etc. : rarely c. gen., Id.1.23.6 ; ἦχος συριγμοῦ π. Philum.Ven.21.1 (in Pl. Sph.217b the gen. ὧν is due to the attraction).
3. folld. by a relat., “τρόπῳ παραπλησίῳ, τῷ καὶ Μασσαγέται” Hdt.4.172 ; by “καί, Λυδοὶ νόμοισι π. χρέωνται καὶ Ἕλληνες” Id.1.94, cf. Th.5.112, 7.71 ; also π. πάσχουσιν ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ . . Isoc.1.27 : neut. παραπλήσια as Adv., π. ὡς εἰ . . , perinde ac si . . , Hdt.4.99 : sg., παραπλήσιον καὶ οὐ πολλῷ πλέον about the same distance and not much more, Th.7.19 ; τὸ π. D.S. 19.43 : more freq. regul. Adv. -ίως, Pl.Ap.37a, al. ; ἆρά γ᾽ ὁμοίως ἢ π. ; D.3.27 ; ἀγωνισάμενος π. having fought with nearly equal advantage, Hdt.1.77 ; “π. τοῖς εἰρημένοις πράττοντας” Isoc.5.51, etc. ; π. καὶ . . , Lat. perinde ac . . , Hdt.7.119 ; π. ἔχει καθάπερ . . Pl.Ep.321a : Comp. “παραπλησιαίτερον” Id.Plt.275c.
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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