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παρα-σπάω , fut. -άσω [σπα^] S. OC1185 :—
A.draw forcibly aside, wrest aside, Id.El.732 ; τὸ παρασπώμενον, = παρασπάς, Thphr.HP2.1.3 : metaph., “τινὰ πρὸς βίαν π. γνώμης” S.OCl.c. ; ἀδίκους φρένας παρασπᾷς, i.e. ὥστε εἶναι ἀδίκους (cf. ἀδάκρυτος) Id.Ant.792 (lyr.) ; “κρίσιν” Phld.Rh.1.174 S. :—Med., παρασπᾶσθαί τινά τινος detach him from another's side to one's own, X.HG 4.8.33, cf. D.1.3 ; π. λόγου detract from an argument, Pl.Sph.241c ; “μαντικῆς ἴχνος παρεσπάσατο” Iamb.Myst.3.27 :—Pass., παρεσπασμένος pulled away, of a circle viewed obliquely, Euc.Opt.36.
II. cull for oneself, Iamb.VP1.1.
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, Olynthiac 1, 3
    • Plato, Sophist, 241c
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 792
    • Sophocles, Electra, 732
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1185
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.8.33
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