Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, παρα-σύρω

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A.“-συ^ρῶ” Hsch. :—Pass., pf. παρασέσυρμαι and aor. 2 παρεσύρην [υ^] (v. infr.) :—sweep away, carry away, of a rapid stream, [Κρατῖνος] πολλῷ ῥεύσας ποτ᾽ ἐπαίνῳ διὰ τῶν ἀφελῶν πεδίων ἔρρει καὶ τῆς στάσεως παρασύρων ἐφόρει τὰς δρῦς κτλ. sweeping the oaks from their stations, Ar.Eq.527 ; “τοῦ ῥεύματος ἡ ὀξύτης πολλοὺς . . παρέσυρε” D.S.17.55 : metaph., of orators, τῷ ῥοθίῳ τῆς φορᾶς . . ἅπαντα . . π. Longin.32.4 :— Pass., to be swept away, “τῇ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ φορᾷ” Ph.1.223 : metaph., “εἰς ἑτέραν παρασύρεσθαι τέχνην” Chor.Lyd. 17(21), cf. Anon. in EN418.21 ; π. ὑπὸ τῶν ὅπλων to be swept into rebellion, Them.Or.7.93c ; ἐκ λήθης π. Tz.H.9.751.

2. π. τῶν νεῶν τοὺς ταρσούς sweep off the oars of the ships by brushing past them, Plb. 16.4.14, cf. D.S.13.16 (Pass.) : intr., τὰ ἐς πλάγιον τοῦ ὀστέου παρασύραντα βέλεα grazing it obliquely, Hp.VC11.

3. snatch away, “ἴκτινος π. κρέας” S.Fr. 767.

4. π. ἔπος drag a word in, use it out of time and place, A.Pr. 1065(anap.).

5. generally, drag, hale, τινὰ εἰς τὰ κριτήρια Mitteis Chr.89.22 (ii A.D.).

6. drag out, “τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον” Lyd.Mag.3.67.

7. ridicule, “παρώφθη καὶ παρεσύρη” Ph. 2.566 :—Med., παιδιὰς παρασεσυρμένας mocking, ib.570.

8. Pass., in Geom., glide, slide along the circumference of a curve, Procl.Hyp.4.4,34.

9. παρασεσυρμένοι, = ὑπεσκελισμένοι, of wrestlers, Hsch.

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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