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παραπήγνυ_μι (also
A.“-ύω” Plu. 2.4c), fix beside or near, as a spear in the ground, Hdt.4.71 :—in Med., of stakes to support vines, “χάρακα παραπήξασθαι ταῖς ἀμπέλοις” Poll.1.224 : hence, metaph. in Act., “παραινέσεις π. τοῖς νέοις” Plu. l. c. ; also, engraft a twig, Id.2.640f.
2. of Gramm., add by way of note, Eust. 190.33, 300.22, etc.
II. Pass., with pf. 2 -πέπηγα, to be fixed beside, of spears, “παρὰ δ᾽ ἔγχεα μακρὰ πέπηγεν” Il.3.135 ; ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν τὰ ξύλα π. Hp.Fract. 13 ; of the pegs in a “παράπηγμα” 1, Berl.Sitzb. 1904.102 (Milet.).
2. to be affixed to, [“τῷ βωμῷ] παρεπεπήγεσαν δᾷδες” Callix.2 ; to be engrafted, Thphr.CP5.6.10 : metaph., αἱ λῦπαι ταῖς ἡδοναῖς παραπεπήγασι are annexed to . . , Isoc. 1.46 ; “ταῖς βασιλείαις ὸ φθόνος παρεπεπήγει” Lib. Or.59.151, cf. Hierocl.in CA25p.475M.
3. to be petrified, Luc. Im.1.
III. Med., register as on α παράπηγμα 1, “τὰ τοῦ κόσμου παθήματα πρὸς τὸν αἰῶνα” Pl.Ax.370c.
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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