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παρι^σόω , (ἴσος)
A.make equal, “αἱ συλλαβαὶ αἱ κατὰ τὸ τέλος παρισοῦσαι τὰ κῶλα” Hermog. Id.1.12 : c. acc. et dat., “π. τῷ τῆς ἀρχῆς μεγέθει τὸν λόγον” Aristid. Or.26(14).108 ; τὰ στέρνα τῇ κεφαλῇ π. Hld.10.30 : abs., use the figure παρίσωσις, Hermog.l.c.
II. Pass. (fut. “παρισώσομαι” Aristid. Or.26(14).2), make oneself equal to, measure oneself against, τινι Hdt.4.166, 8.140. “α᾽ ; ἐπεί χ᾽ Ἑλένᾳ παρισωθῇ” Theoc.18.25.
2. to be made equal or like to, “ἄνδρα ἀρετῇ παρισωμένον καὶ ὡμοιωμένον” Pl. R.498e ; to be as large as, Paus.8.25.13 ; to be comparable with, Hermog. Id.2.10.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.166
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.25.13
    • Plato, Republic, 498e
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