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παραχρῆμα , Adv. for παρὰ τὸ χρῆμα (cf. χρέος)
A.on the spot, forthwith, Hdt.3.15, 7.150, Lys.25.17, etc.; πάλαι τε καὶ οἱ πλεῖστοι π. Th. 7.75 ; “εἰ καὶ μὴ π., ἀλλ᾽ ὀλίγον ὕστερον” Isoc. 18.64 ; ταχέως καὶ π. Cratin.6 ; at the moment, “π. τέρψασαι” Critias 6.23 (nisi divisim scribendum) ; τὰ π. the present, opp. τὰ μέλλοντα, Th.1.138 ; ἡ π. ἀνάγκη present necessity, Id.2.17 ; τὸ π. περιχαρές ib.51 ; “τὸ π. περιδεές” Id.8.1 ; τὸ π. ἡδύ immediate pleasure, Pl.Prt.356a ; “αἱ π. ἡδοναί” Antipho Soph.58 : with the Art., τὸ π. Hdt.6.11, etc.; ἐκ τοῦ π. λέγειν to speak offhand, Pl.Cra.399d, cf. D.1.1 ; “ἐκ τοῦ π. στρατεύεσθαι” X.HG6.4.11 ; “αἱ ἐκ τοῦ π. ἡδοναί” Id.Mem.2.1.20 ; λέγειν ἀπὸ τοῦ π. Id.HG1.1.30 ; ἐν τῷ π. Antipho 5.73, Pl.R.455a, etc.; “ἐς τὸ π. ἀκούειν” Th.1.22 ; “ἀσθενεῖς εἰς τὸ π. γίγνονται” Pl.Lg.646c.—More freq. in Hdt. and Att. Prose than in later writers (hence expld. by Hsch. παραχρῆμα: παραυτίκα . . , εὐθέως), cf. Call.Fr.106.3, SIG577.12 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.), Plu. Cam.42 ; “νόμοι ἐκ τοῦ π. κείμενοι” Jul. ad Them.262a ; “ἐκ τοῦ π. εἰπεῖν” Plu.2.6e, cf. Longin.18.2 ; ἐν τῷ π. Aristid.2.407 J. :—hence Cobet treats ἄρτι, εὐθύς, εὐθέως, when joined with παραχρῆμα as glosses, “π. ἄρτι” X.HG1.4.14 ; εὐθέως π. Antipho 1.20 ; εὐθὺς π. Is.1.11, Din.1.94, D.48.40.
2. in later writers, c. gen., “π. τῆς εὐεργεσίας” D.Chr.11.130 ; “π. τῆς διαβάσεως” Eun.Hist.p.240 D., cf. Gp.10.75.16.
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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