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παρηγορ-έω , impf.
A.“παρηγόρουν” A.Pr.646 ; Ep. “παρηγορέεσκε” A. R. 4.1740, Musae.39 : fut. “-ήσω” Plu.Ant.83 : aor. “-ησα” E.Hec.288, Pl. Ax.364c :—Med., impf., Hdt.(v. infr.) : aor. “-ησάμην” Luc.Am.52 :— Pass., pres., Ath.15.687d : fut. “-ήσομαι” Hp.Hum.1, Aret.CD2.3 : aor. “-ήθην” Plu.Caes. 28, etc. : (παρήγορος) :—address, exhort, τινα A.Pr.646, Hdt.9.54, etc. ; “ὀχλεῖς μάτην με κῦμ᾽ ὅπως παρηγορῶν” A.Pr.1001, cf. Eu.507 (lyr.) ; π. ὡς . . advise, give counsel that. . , E.Hec.288 : c. acc. pers. et inf., S.Fr.176 :—Med., “τὸν Γόργον παρηγορέετο ἀπίστασθαι” Hdt.5.104, cf. 7.13 ; π. τινὰ μὴ κινδυνεύειν v.l. in Id.9.55, cf. 54, Pi. O.9.77.
II. console, comfort, A.Pers.530, E.Ph. 1449 ; τὰ παρηγοροῦντα consolations, emollients, D.60.35 ; appease, Ἔρωτα θυηλαῖς Musae.l.c.
2. c.acc. rei, assuage, soothe, “τὰ κακὰ δι᾽ ἑτέρων κακῶν” Philem.234, Men.549.5 ; τὴν λύπην, τὰ πάθη, D.H.1.77, Plu.2.156c ; “τὴν χωλότητα” Id.Publ.16 ; τὸν βίον τρυφῇ π. IG9(1).883.3 (Corc.) ; of medicines, allay irritation, “π. τὸν πνεύμονα” Hp.Acut.58, cf. Aret. l.c.: —Pass., Epigr.Gr.1096.6 (Stratonicea), Ath.l.c.—In correct Att. Prose παραμυθέομαι prevails.
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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