παράδειγ-μα (paradeigma)

Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Statesman 14 · 8.26/10k
Rhetoric 32 · 7.44/10k
Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
Ars Poetica 6 · 5.93/10k
Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
Timaeus 12 · 5.08/10k
Sophist 6 · 3.75/10k
Paralipomenon I 4 · 3.01/10k
Meno 2 · 2.04/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παράδειγ-μα · paradeig-ma — LSJ

pattern, model, model, plan, model, exemplars, ideas, copy

pattern, model: of an architectʼs model (or perh. plan) of a building, Hdt. 5.62, IG 2(2).1668.95, 11(2).161 A 43,75,203 B 95, al. (Delos, iii B. C.); a sculptorʼs or painterʼs model, Pl. Ti. 28c, R. 500e, IG 1(2).374.248, 2(2).1675.23 (pl.); of the divine exemplars after which earthly things are made, ἐν οὐρανῷ ἴσως π. ἀνάκειται Pl. R. 592b; of the Platonic ideas, opp. εἰκών, Arist. Metaph. 991a21, 1013a27 (later, copy, Πλάτων τὸν ὁρατὸν κόσμον γεγονέναι π. τοῦ νοητοῦ κόσμου Placit. 2.6.4 (v.l.

2 precedent, example, example, example

precedent, example, παραδείγματα λαβεῖν παρά τινος Pl. Men. 77b; ἐμὲ π. ποιούμενος Id. Ap. 23b; παραδείγμασι χρῆσθαι Th. 3.10; π. χρῆσθαί τινι copy oneʼs example, And. 4.22; τοῖς γεγενημένοις π. χρῆσθαι Lys. 25.23; π. ἐξοίσετε Din. 1.107; π. καταλείπεσθαι Lycurg. 9; δοῦναι παραδείγματα Pl. Lg. 876e; ἐπὶ παραδείγματος by way of example, Aeschin. 1.177; παραδείγματος εἵνεκα Lys. 22.20; παραδείγματα ἁμαρτημάτων And. 3.32.

b sample, samples

sample, παραδείγματα νεκρῶν ξύλινα samples of mummies made of wood, Hdt. 2.86, cf. PSI 5.485 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen. 445.9, 665.2 (iii B. C.).

3 lesson, warning

lesson, warning, ἔχοντες παραδείγματα τῶν ἐκεῖ Ἑλλήνων Th. 6.77; τὸ σὸν π. ἔχων S. OT 1193 (lyr.); τοῖς ἄλλοις ἔσται π. ὕβρεως Ar. Th. 670 (anap.); π. καθιστάναι Th. 3.40; ζῶντά τινα τοῖς λοιποῖς π. ποιῆσαι D. 19.101, cf. 343, 21.98; π. τοὺς Σύρους λαβέ Men. 544.1; π. τοῦ μὴ ἀδικεῖν Lys. 27.5.

4 argument, proof from example

argument, proof from example, Th. 1.2, etc., cf. Arist. APr. 68b38, Rh. 1356b3, 1402b14, 1418a3, Zeno Stoic. 1.23; including παραβολή and λόγος, Arist. Rh. 1393a 27.

5 leading case, precedent

in Law, leading case, precedent, Wilcken Chr. 27.5 (ii A. D.).

II foil, contrast

foil, contrast, τὰ γὰρ κακὰ π. τοῖς ἐσθλοῖσιν εἴσοψίν τʼ ἔχει E. El. 1085.

In the wild

παραδειγμάτων · paradeigmatōn Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1475)
Παράδειγμα · Paradeigma Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1409)
παράδειγμά · paradeigma Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1417)
παράδειγμα · paradeigma Aristotle, Ars Poetica 15
παράδειγμα · paradeigma Aristotle, Ars Poetica 15
παράδειγμα · paradeigma Aristotle, Ars Poetica 22

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