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παραίτιος

paraitios

being in part the cause

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What it meant

παραίτιος · paraitios — LSJ

being in part the cause, shared the blame

being in part the cause, ἡ Μοῖρα τούτων π. shared the blame, A. l.c.; τὸ κακὸν ἀγαθοῦ γίγνεται π. E. Fr. 174.3; ἀγαθῶν π. Decr. ap. D. 18.92; later, practically, = αἴτιος, Supp.Epigr. 3.468.4 (Thess., i B. C.), Ph. 2.92, al., Ocell. 4.14; τῶν αἰσχρῶν τὸ θεῖον [οὔκ ἐστι] π. Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.326.

2 accessory to

in bad sense, accessory to a crime, τῶν δʼ ἐγὼ π. A. Fr. 44.7; π. τοῦ φόνου Paus. 4.3.8; π. τινί τινος Plb. 18.41.3, cf. Michel 56.14, 1015.15 (both Teos, ii B. C.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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