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παρασκευ-αστικός , ή, όν,
A.skilled in providing, “τῶν εἰς τὸν πόλεμον” X.Mem.3.1.6, cf. Arist. VV1250a3 ; π. ἡδονῆς, λύπης, ἀταραξίας, causing them, Thphr.Char. 5.1, 19.1, Phld.Piet.65 ; “βεβαίου τόπου” Epicur.Nat.11.11 ; “νόσου” Alcmaeon 4 (v.l.), cf. Porph.Abst.1.33 ; “ὄγκου αἱ φαντασίαι παρασκευαστικώταται” Longin.15.1 ; π. πρός τι Andronic.Rhod.p.574M.
2. abs., preparatory, opp. ἀποθεραπευτικός, Gal.6.117, cf. Asclep.Bith. ap.Cael.Aur.TP2.13.
3. ἡ π. βίβλος treatise on preparaions for defence, Aen.Tact.7.4, al. ; τὸ π. the signal for making ready (to march), D.C.47.43.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.1.6
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 19.1
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 5.1
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 47.43
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