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παρα^μείβω ,
A.change or alter, “τινὰ ὅλον” Alciphr.3.40.
II. = Med., leave on one side, pass by, c. acc. loci, A.R.2.660, Plu.Mar.18, etc.; of a river, flow past, Arist.Mir.846b30.
2. outrun, excel, “σοφίᾳ σοφίαν” S.OT504(lyr.).
3. c. acc. cogn., παράμειβε κέλευθον pass on your way, Arch.Pap.1.220.—Rare in Act.
B. Med., pass by, leave on one side, “τὸν παραμειψάμενος” Od.6.310 ; “παρημείβοντο Μάλειαν” h.Ap.409 ; “ἔθνεα πολλὰ παραμειψάμενοι” Hdt.1.94 ; “πόλιας τάσδε” Id.7.109, etc.; Κόρας (i. e. their shrine) S. OC130(lyr.) ; “π. τὰς πηγὰς τοῦ Εὐφράτου” Plu.Pomp.32 ; of rivers, run past a place, Hdt.1.72,75 ; march past, “τῶν βαρβάρων τὴν τάξιν” Plu.Ant.39 ; but πύλας παραμείψεται shall pass through the gates, Thgn.709.
2. pass over, omit to mention, Hdt.2.102.
3. outstrip, “καὶ θαλασσαῖον π. δελφῖνα” Pi.P.2.50 ; “μή τίς σε λάθῃ . . ὄχοις παραμειψαμένη” E.IA146 (anap.).
4. of time, pass, go by, Hes. Op.409.
II. causal, turn aside, divert, τίνα πρὸς . . ἄκραν ἐμὸν πλόον παραμείβεαι; Pi.N.3.27.—Cf. παραμεύομαι.
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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