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παράδοξος

paradoxos

contrary to expectation, incredible

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Where it lives

Third Philippic 2 · 4.7/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
Third Olynthiac 1 · 4.25/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
On the Navy-Boards 1 · 3.89/10k
To Nicocles 1 · 3.32/10k
Helen 1 · 2.68/10k
Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
Rhetoric 9 · 2.09/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Discourses 14 · 1.89/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παράδοξος · paradoxos — LSJ

contrary to expectation, incredible, a paradox, contrary to all expectation, paradoxes

contrary to expectation, incredible, π. λόγος a paradox, Pl. R. 472a; π. τε καὶ ψεῦδος Id. Plt. 281a; παράδοξα λέγειν X. Cyr. 7.2.16; ἂν παράδοξον εἴπω D. 3.10; ἐκ τοῦ παραδόξου καὶ παραλόγου contrary to all expectation, Id. 25.32, cf. Phld. Vit. p.23 J.; πολλὰ ποικίλλει χρόνος π. καὶ θαυμαστά Men. 593; π. μοι τὸ πρᾶγμα Thphr. Char. 1.6; τὸ ἔνδοξον ἐκ τοῦ π. θηρώμενος Plu. Pomp. 14; παράδοξα Stoical paradoxes, Id. Comm.not. 2.1060b sq.: Comp., Phld. Mus. p.72 K., Plot. 4.9.2: Sup., LXX Wi. 16.17

II the Admirable

παράδοξος, title of distinguished athletes, musicians, and artists of all kinds, the Admirable, IG 3.1442, 14.916, Arr. Epict. 2.18.22, IGRom. 4.468 (Pergam., iii A. D.), PHamb. 21.3 (iv A. D.), Rev.Ét.Gr. 42.434 (Delph.), etc.

In the wild

παράδοξον · paradoxon Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..11 (DIORISIS sentence 128)
παράδοξοι · paradoxoi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 121)
παράδοξα · paradoxa Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παραδόξων · paradoxōn Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 1032)
παράδοξα · paradoxa Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1146a (DIORISIS sentence 2273)
παραδόξου · paradoxou Aristotle, Rhetoric 2

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