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παραιν-έω

paraineo

exhort, recommend, advise

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παραιν-έω · parain-eō — LSJ

exhort, recommend, advise, advise

exhort, recommend, advise, παραίνεσε μὴ φειδομένους κτείνειν πάντα Hdt. 1.80; ὧδε παραινέων, πέμψαντα δέεσθαι Id. 3.4; π. τινί c. inf., Ar. Ra. 1132, Pl. Phdr. 234b; τοῖς ναύταις παραινῶ μὴ ἐκπεπλῆχθαι Th. 7.63; π. τινί τι Pi. P. 6.23, A. Pr. 309, S. OC 464, etc.; τι Hdt. 1.59, 5.31, etc.; π. τινί advise a person, A. Ch. 903; τοῖς πέλας Th. 5.9; ἄλλῳ πονοῦντι ῥᾴδιον παραινέσαι Philem. 75.1:—Pass., ὥσπερ πρότερον παρῃνέθη Hp. l.c., cf. Th. 7.69.

2 advise, recommend publicly, propose, advise

advise or recommend publicly, propose, παρῄνει τοιάδε Id. 1.139, cf. IG 1(2).90.43, etc.; π. περὶ τῶν παρόντων Th. 2.13; οὐ π. advise not . . , c. inf. (cf. οὔ φημι, etc.), ib. 18.

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