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παρα-στα^τικός , ή, όν,
A.fit for standing by. Adv. “-κῶς” Phot., Suid.
II. bringing to light, displaying, ἑαυτοῦ τε καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου Antioch.Ascal. ap.S.E.M.7.162 ; “ἀληθοῦς” Stoic.2.73 ; indicative, c. gen., τὰ καιροῦ π. (sc. ἐπιρρήματα）“ οἷον σήμερον” D.T.641.28, cf. A.D.Pron.7.26, al., S.E. M.8.202 ; making manifest, ὁλοτελῶν κόσμων π. Dam.Pr.224.
III. able to exhort or rouse, c. gen., “ἀγωνίας” Plb.3.43.8 ; “ὁρμῆς” Plu.Lyc. 21 ; creating a disposition or propensity, “πρὸς τὰς πράξεις” Phld. Mus.p.71 K. ; “π. πρὸς συνουσίαν” S.E.M.1.307 ; “π. ἀπό τινος εἴς τι” Phld.Oec.p.52 J.
IV. desperately courageous, Plb.16.5.7 (Comp.). Adv. “-κῶς” Id.16.28.8, D.S.18.22 : Comp. “-ώτερον” Id.20.11.
2. desperate, furious, “διάθεσις” Plb.1.67.6, etc. ; “π. τὰς διανοίας” Id.18.46.10.
V. parastatica, = παραστάς, Vitr.5.1.6, 10.10.2, Plin.HN33.52.
VI. -κόν, τό, tomb, MAMA3.10, al. (Seleucia ad Calycadnum).
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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    • Polybius, Histories, 16.28.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.5.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 18.46.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.67.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.43.8
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 33.52
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 21
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.22
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.11
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