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παρατρέχω , fut.
A.“-δραμοῦμαι” Com.Adesp.555 : aor. παρέδρα^μον (the only tense used by Hom., v. infr.) : pf. -δέδρομα (v. infr. 4) : plpf. “-δεδραμήκεσαν” X.An.7.1.23 : aor. 1 part. “παραθρέξας” A.R.3.955 :—run by or past, “ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὦκα παρέδραμεν” Il.10.350, cf. 22.157; “ἐς τὰ Πιττάλου” Ar.V.1432; “π. παρ᾽ οἰκίαν” X.An.7.4.18; οἱ-τρέχοντες the runners of a king's bodyguard, LXX 3 Ki.14.27, al.; “οἱ περὶ τὴν διοίκησιν -τρέχοντες” Arch.Pap.8.206(i B. C.).
b. accompany, c. dat., “χάρις π. ταῖς συνουσίαις” Eun.VS p.499B.
c. παράτρεχε be off!, Alex.16.11.
2. outrun, overtake, “Ἴφικλον δὲ πόδεσσι παρέδραμον” Il.23.636, cf. Ar.Eq.1353 ; “χελώνη π. δασύποδα” Com.Adesp.555; π. τὰ τότε κακά go beyond, exceed them, E.HF1020 ; π. τινὰ ἔν τινι, π. τινὰ τοσοῦτον, excel, surpass him, Plb.31.25.2 and 29.12 ; “ἔς τι” Eun.Hist.p.252 D.
3. run through or over, “τὸ λοιπὸν [τοῦ χωρίου]” X.An.4.7.6 ; ἑπτά εἰσιν αἱ ἡλικίαι ἃς π. ὁ ἄνθρωπος Sch.Philostr.Her.p.391 Boissonade ; run across (a space of ground expressed or implied), ἐπὶ . . , εἰς . . , X.An.7.1.23, 4.7.11 : abs., dub. in ib.4.5.8.
4. run over, i. e. treat cursorily, Isoc.4.73 ; παρέργως π. D.H.Rh.5.3 ; τὰ γράμματα τῇ ὄψει π. Plu.2.520e ; cf. παραδέδρομα （-ωμαι cod.): παρεμνήσθην, Hsch.
b. pass over, omit, Plb.10.43.1, Gal.8.869; “ἵνα ταῦτα παραδράμω” D.C.79.12 ; slight, neglect, Theoc.20.32.
5. escape un noticed, τινας Plb.6.6.4; “παρὰ δὲ φρένας ἔδραμον ἀνδρῶν” Opp.H.3.96 : abs., of Time, Hdn.2.12.4.
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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