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παρα-κλίνω [ι_],
A.bend, turn aside, ἦκα πα<*>ακλίνας κεφαλήν Od.20.301 ; π. τοὺς μυκτῆρας πρὸς “τὰς λαύρας” Ar.Pax157 ; π. τὴν πύλην set it ajar, Hdt.3.156 ; π. τῆς αὐλείας open a bit of the hall-door, Ar.Pax981.
2. metaph., ἄλλῃ παρκλίνωσι δίκας turn justice from her path, Hes.Op.262 ; “π. τὸν νόμον” Arist.Rh.Al.1444b16 ; of words, σμικρόν τι π. alter slightly, Pl.Cra. 410a, cf. 400c.
3. lay beside, τὰς λαγόνας γυναιξί dub. in LXX Si. 47.19 (v. παρανακλίνω), cf. Ruf.Ren.Ves.1.13 :—Med. and Pass., lie alongside, Hp.Art.54 ; lie down beside, τινι Theoc.2.44, AP5.293 (Agath.); lie side by side, Arist.HA540a1 ; of adjacent lands, “Πελοπηῒς ὅση παρακέκλιται Ἰσθμῷ” Call.Del.72.
4. Med., turn aside, Ant.Lib.17.6.
II. intr., turn aside, Il.23.424 (where however ἵππους may be supplied) ; παρακλίνασα having swerved from her first seeming, A.Ag.744 (lyr.).
III. turn aside from, avoid, “τὴν ἁφὴν τὴν ἀλλήλων” Arist.GA745a26.
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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