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πάροδος (B), ἡ,
A.way by or past, passage, Th.3.21, Arist.Cael.294b26 ; π. καὶ τροπαὶ τῶν ἄστρων ib.296b4, cf. Simp. in Cael.507.24; π. τοῦ χρόνου passage, lapse of time, Porph.Sent.44.
b. Astrol., rotation of chronocratory, Vett. Val.37.9, cf. Ptol. Tetr.109.
2. going by or past, passing, entrance, Th.4.82 ; ἐν τῇ π. as they passed by, Id.1.126, cf. Plb.5.68.8 ; κατὰ τὴν π. Id.21.46.12 ; ἐκ π., ἐν π., by the way, cursorily, Arist. Cael. 306b27, Phld. Rh.1.245 S., D.S.18.16 ; “π. τινὶ ἐπὶ τὰς ὕστερον πράξεις διδόναι” Plu. 2.345c ; τὴν π. ἵν᾽ ἔχῃς τῶν θυρῶν εὐνουστέραν entrance by the door, Dionys. Com.3.17.
II. narrow entrance or approach, mountain-pass, as Thermopylae, etc., Lys.2.30, X.An.4.7.4, etc.; λαβεῖν τὰς π. take the pass, D.5.20, cf. 9.32, Phld. Rh.1.334 S.; opp. δίοδοι, X.Cyn.6.6.
b. esp. side-entrance on the stage, Semus 20, Poll.4.126.
c. gallery or passage-way surmounting fortifications, IG 22.463.49,52,1672.110.
III. coming forward, appearance, esp. before the assembly, D.Ep.3.29, Jul.Or.7.205b, etc.
2. first entrance of a chorus in the orchestra, which was made from the side wings, Arist. EN1123a23, Poll.4.108; “ὥσπερ δράματος” Plu.2.805d.
b. first song sung by the chorus after its entrance, Arist. Po. 1452b22, Plu.2.785a.
3. use of stage for an artist's performance, “ἡ π. εὗρεν δραχμήν” Michel 908, 909 (lasos).
4. public recitation, AP11.422 (Antioch.).
IV. in a ship, gangway, passage along the deck, Plu.Demetr.43 : metaph., “π. καὶ ἐπιβάθρα τοῦ συγγράφειν” Artem.3 Praef.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1452b.22
    • Demosthenes, On the Peace, 20
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 3, 32
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 30
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.126
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.82
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.7.4
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.6
    • Demosthenes, Letters, 3.29
    • Polybius, Histories, 21.46.12
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.68.8
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.21
    • Plutarch, Demetrius, 43
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.16
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 109
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