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παρατάσσω , Att. παρατάν-ττω ,
A.place or post side by side, draw up in battleorder, Hdt.9.31, Th.7.3, X.HG1.1.33, etc. : also c. inf., τοὺς φρουροὺς παρέταξε φυλάττειν τὸ τεῖχος drew them up with orders to guard . . , ib.4.5.11 :—Med., in prop. sense, draw up one's men in battle-order, ib.7.5.23 codd.; of ships, “π. μετεώρους” Th.1.52 ; post by one's side, “αὐτὸς αὑτῷ με παρετάξατο” Isoc.19.38 ; “αὐτοῖς π. τὰ παιδικὰ εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα” X.Smp.8.34 :—Med. and Pass., draw up or be drawn up beside, “τῶν ὁπλιτέων οἳ παρατετάχατο παρὰ τὴν ἀκτήν” Hdt.8.95 ; “παραταχθεὶς ἐν μάχῃ πλουσίῳ” Pl.R.556d ; to be drawn up in battle-order, “ἑκατέρωθεν παρατεταγμένοι” Th.4.32, cf. 43, etc.; παραταξάμενοι τοῖς πολεμίοις against . . , Isoc.12.92 ; “ὡς παρετάξαντο ἀλλήλοις” X.HG4.3.5 ; “παρατάξασθαι πρὸς τὰς δυνάμεις” Isoc.4.96 ; “πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους” Plb.2.1.8 ; “ἐπί τινα” App.BC5.22 : abs., stand side by side in battle, “οἱ παρατεταγμένοι” Th.4.96, cf. Ar.V.1123, X.HG3.4.23 ; παραταξάμενοι ἐναυμάχησαν in order of battle, Th.1.29, cf. X.Cyr.5.3.5 ; “μὰ . . τοὺς ἐν Πλαταιαῖς παραταξαμένους” D.18.208.
2. Med. and Pass., stand prepared, “παρατετάχθαι πρὸς τὸ ἀποκρίνεσθαι” Pl.Prt. 333e ; “πρὸς τὰ κακά” Epicur. Fr.489 : c. inf., refuse obstinately, “π. μὴ ἐπινεύειν” Arr.Epict.1.5.3, cf. M.Ant.8.48.
II.. set side by side, compare, Isoc.11.7.
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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