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παρεκ-λέγω ,
A.collect covertly, π. τὰ κοινά embezzle the public moneys, D.19.294, cf.Ph.2.575, D.C.54.21, 76.7.
2. of birds, collect food here and there, “ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ παρεκλέγων” Ael.NA8.25, cf.17.16.
3. seek to acquire, “τὸ τῆς δόξης ἀθάνατον” Eun.Hist.p.251 D.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 294
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 17.16
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 54.21
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 76.7
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