The corpus record

παραίτ-ησις

paraitesis · ἡ

supplication, entreaty

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Where it lives

Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

παραίτ-ησις · parait-ēsis — LSJ

supplication, entreaty, application for leave, petition

supplication, entreaty, π. παραιτεῖσθαι Pl. Criti. 107a; μηδεμία τῆς μονῆς π. γιγνέσθω no application for leave to stay, Id. Lg. 915c; πρόφασιν εἰσδέχεσθαι καὶ π. Plb. 16.17.8; petition, POxy. 899v21 (iii A. D.).

II deprecating, excuse, apology, pardon

deprecating, Th. 1.73; excuse, apology, Plb. 39.1.5, Jul. Or. 2.64a (pl.), Chor. in Rev.Phil. 1.73, etc.; pardon, ἁμαρτημάτων Ph. 2.296, cf. 223.

2 declining, dismissal

declining, Plu. Sanit. 2.124b; dismissal, D.C. 78.22.

III intercession, begging off

intercession, begging off, Gorg. Pal. 33, D. 9.37.

In the wild

παραίτησις · paraitēsis Demosthenes, Third Philippic 37 (DIORISIS sentence 96)
παραιτήσεως · paraitēseōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9278)
παραίτησιν · paraitēsin Plato, Critias 107
παραίτησις · paraitēsis Plato, Laws 915
παραιτήσεως · paraitēseōs Thucydides, History 1.73.3 (DIORISIS sentence 454)

Where it came from

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