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παραχωρ-έω , fut.
A.“-ήσομαι” D.23.105, later “-ήσω” LXX 2 Ma.8.11 :— go aside : rarely in lit. sense, to be displaced, Hp.Loc.Hom.47 : mostly, make way, give place, abs., Ar.Ra.767, Ec.633, And.1.26, Pl.Smp. 213b, D.17.1, etc.; τινι for one, X.HG5.4.28, Arr.Epict.4.1.107, etc.
b. give way, yield, submit, τινι to one, Pl.Prt.336b ; τινί τινος in respect of . . , ib.c. c. acc. cogn., εἴ τις ταῦτα παραχωρήσειε should concede this, Arist. de An.410b25 : c. acc. et dat., “π. τῷ νομοθετοῦντι τοιάδε” Pl.Lg.959e.
2. π. τινός retire from . . , “ὑμᾶς ἀξιῶ . . μὴ παραχωρεῖν τῆς τάξεως” D.3.36 ; ἐκ τῆς πόλεως v.l. in D.H.6.50.
3. step aside out of the way for another, as a mark of respect, “ὁδοῦ π. τὸν νεώτερον πρεσβυτέρῳ” X.Mem.2.3.16 : in full, c. dat. pers. et gen. rei vel loci, “ὁ ποταμὸς ἡμῖν παρακεχώρηκε τῆς ὁδοῦ” Id.Cyr.7.5.20 ; “π. σοι τοῦ βήματος” Aeschin.3.165 ; τοῖς ἐχθροῖς τῆς ἡμετέρας π. Isoc.6.13 ; Φιλίππῳ . . Ἀμφιπόλεως παρακεχωρήκαμεν we have given up Amphipolis to him, D.5.25 ; “τῆς ἐλευθερίας π. Φιλίππῳ” Id.18.68 ; “π. τινὶ τῶν αὑτοῦ” Id.37.50 ; “οὐ γὰρ ἐπ᾽ εὐνοία γ᾽ ἐμοὶ παρεχώρεις ἐλπίδων” Id.18.273 ; τῇ πόλει παραχωρῶ τῆς τιμωρίας I leave the task of punishment to the state, Id.21.28 ; π. τισὶ τῆς πολιτείας, τῆς ἀρχῆς, etc., Aeschin.3.5, Plb.4.5.1, etc.
4. concede, “π. τινί τι” LXX 2 Ma.2.28 ; “τὰ ὡμολογημένα” Arr.Epict.1.7.15 ; π. τινὶ θέσθαι τι allow, permit, Pl. Plt.260e ; εἰ δὲ ἐπελάθετο, νῦν παρασχέσθω: ἐγὼ παραχωρῶ (sc. αὐτῷ παρασχέσθαι) Id.Ap.34a ; deliver, hand over, σώματα ταλάντου π. LXX 2 Ma.8.11 :—Pass., to be permitted or conceded, Corn.Rh.p.366 H., Plu. 2.787d.
b. in Law, give up, surrender a holding, claim. or right, PTeb.5.82(ii B.C.), PGrenf.2.33.3 (ii/i B.C.), etc.; “δάνειον” PSI1.64.15 (i B. C.) : c. dat., Arch.Pap.5.390(i A. D.) :—Pass., PTeb.30.28 (ii B.C.) ; also παρακεχωρημένος τὸν Μενάνδρου κλῆρον having had his holding ceded to me, ib.31.16 (ii B.C.) ; “ἀλλότρια δάνεια -χωρούμενοι” OGI669.15 (Egypt, i A.D.).
5. ἐνταῦθα π. comes to this, results in this, Plu.2.365c.
6. flow, of saliva, Orib.Syn.8.9 (v.l. προχ-).
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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