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παραγίγνομαι , Ion. and later Gr. παρα-γίνομαι [ι_], aor. Pass.
A.“παρεγενήθην” Plb.3.99.2, etc.:—to be beside, by or near: c. dat. pers. et rei, καί σφιν παρεγίγνετο δαιτί attended them at the banquet, Od.17.173: c. dat. pers. only, Σοφοκλεῖ π. ἐρωτωμένῳ was by him when he was asked, Pl.R.329b, cf. Antipho 6.17: c. dat. rei only, π. τῇ μάχῃ to be present at . . , Pl.Chrm.153c; “τῇ συνουσίᾳ” Id.Smp.172c, cf. Hdt.8.109; also “π. ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσι” Isoc.12.52; ἐν τοιοῖσδε λόγοις, ἐν τῇ συνουσίᾳ, Pl.Prt.337a, Smp.173b: abs., Antipho 2.3.5.
2. π. τινί come to one's side, stand by, second, Hes.Th.429, 436, Hdt.3.32; “μάρτυρες . . τοῖσι θανοῦσιν π.” A.Eu.319 (anap.); ἐπί τινα against one, Th.2.95; μάχῃ . . π. τισί support them in battle, Id.3.54: abs., Hes.Th. 432, Th.6.67; “ἄνδρες ἱππῆς -γένεσθε” Ar.Eq.242; “-γενηθεὶς ἐπάγγελτος” SIG708.21 (Istropolis, ii B. C.).
3. of things, to be at hand, accrue to one, “πόλεμος ὅθεν καί τις δύναμις παρεγένετο” Th.1.15, cf. X.Mem. 4.2.2; “φόβοι παραγιγνόμενοί τισι” Isoc.5.34; “ἀρετὴ π. οἷς ἂν π.” Pl. Men.99e, cf. 86d, Arist.EN1099b16; “ἀπὸ φυσιολογίας” Phld.Rh.1.122 S.; of scientific learning, Arist.APo.71a4; of virtue, “ὅτῳ τρόπῳ παραγίγνεται” Pl.Men.71a.
4. π. ἀπό τινος to be descended from . . , or perh. to have a right to attend a sacrifice through descent from . . , Inscr.Cos405.
II. come to, τινι Thgn.139, X.Cyr.4.1.14, etc.; “π. ἐς κώμην” Hdt.1.185; π. ἐς τὠυτό come to the same point, Id.2.4; “ἐς τὸ δέον” Id.1.32; “ἐπὶ τὰς ταφάς” Aeschin.3.235: abs., arrive, come up, “παρεγένοντο αἱ νέες” Hdt.6.95.
2. come to maturity, of corn, Id.1.193; of the horns of oxen, to be fully grown, Id.4.29.
3. have recourse to, “ἐπὶ τροφὴν καὶ πόμα” Gal.15.506; ἐπὶ τὸ τῆς ὄνου γάλα ib. 746.
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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