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παρεκ-τείνω ,
A.stretch out in line, deploy an army into line, Plb.11.12.4, etc.; of a fleet, “π. ἐπὶ μίαν ναῦν” Id.1.26.15; “ὅτι πλεῖστον π. τὰς ναῦς” D.S.13.98 : generally, stretch out beside, “τὸ σῶμά τινι” Plu.Agis 20; stretch out, εἰς λόγους ταῦτα π. Ps.-Luc.Philopatr.23 :—Pass., “τῆς στρατοπεδείας παρὰ τὸν Ἀσωπὸν -τεταμένης” Plu.Arist.11.
II. intr., extend, of Place, “ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν” LXX Ez.47.19; “τὸ δεξιὸν κέρας παρὰ τὸν Εὐφράτην -τεῖνον” D.S. 14.22; “αἱ κῶμαι π. ἀπὸ Πισιδίας . . ἕως Αυκίας” Str.13.4.17; of Time, Thphr.CP1.13.9; τριταῖοι -τείνοντες, of semi-tertian fevers, Agathin. ap.Gal.7.367; “-τεινόντων τῶν ἀγώνων” Phld.Mus.p.109K.
2. of a man, extend his life, survive, “μέχρι τινός” D.H.Is.1.
3. in Logic, to be of wider extent, Arist.AP0.99a35.
III. in Pass., c. dat., extend beside or be coextensive with, “π. χείλεσι ποταμοῦ” D.S.3.10; “ὅλα ὅλοις -τείνεται” Stoic.2.156 ; “-τείνεσθαι τῷ χρόνῳ” Diog.Bab.Stoic.3.216; “ὕλης -τεινομένης τοῖς σώμασιν” Jul.Or.4.134a.
2. metaph., measure oneself with, “παρεκτείνεσθαί τινι” Democr.238; “μὴ -τείνου πένης ὢν πλουσίῳ” LXXPr.23.4.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.98
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.22
    • Plutarch, Aristeides, 11
    • Strabo, Geography, 13.4.17
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.12.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.26.15
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 47.19
    • Old Testament, Proverbs, 23.4
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.10
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isaeo, 1
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