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παρελαύνω or παρεκ-ελάω , aor.
A.“παρήλα^σα” Il.23.638, Ep. παρέλασσα ib. 382 :—drive by or past, ἐναντίω δύ᾽ ἅρματε π. drive them past one another, Ar.Av.1129 ; “π. τὸν ἵππον” X.Cyr.5.3.55 ; τὰς αἶγας παρελᾶντα (Dor. pres. part.) Theoc.5.89, cf. 8.73, Longus 3.15.
II. as if intr.,
1. drive by (sc. δίφρον, ἅρμα, ἵππους, etc.), Il.23.382,427.
b. c. acc. pers., drive past, overtake another, οἴοισίν μ᾽ἵπποισι παρήλασαν ib.638 ; but π. Τρηχῖνα drive on to Trachis, Hes.Sc.353 ; also π. ἐφ᾽ ἅρματος, ἐφ᾽ ἵππου, X.An.1.2.16, 3.4.46.
2. row or sail past, “παρήλασε νηΐ” Od.12.186.
b. c. acc. pers., [Σειρῆνας] παρήλασαν ib. 197.
3. in Prose, ride by, run by, c. acc., freq. in X., An.1.2.17, al.; π. τὰς τάξεις ib.3.5.4.
4. less freq., ride up to, rush towards, πρὸς αὑτόν, ἐπὶ τοὺς πολεμίους, Cyr.4.2.12, Eq.Mag.8.18 ; ride on one's way, Cyr.3.3.4.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1129
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 353
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.382
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.638
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.186
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.2.16
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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.2.12
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.3.55
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 3.3.4
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 8.18
    • Longus, Daphnis & Chloe, 3.15
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