The corpus record

παρακινδυν-εύω

parakinduneuo

make a venture

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
De aere aquis et locis 1 · 1.35/10k
Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παρακινδυν-εύω · parakindyn-euō — LSJ

make a venture, venture

make a venture, Hp. Aër. 23, Ar. V. 6, And. 2.11, Th. 4.26, etc. ; ἐς Ἰωνίαν π. venture to Ionia, Id. 3.36.

2 venture, risk, venture, bold, venturous, desperate

c. acc. rei, venture, risk a thing, Ar. Eq. 1054, Pl. Lg. 967b ; παρακινδυνεύων λέγω I venture to say, Id. Tht. 204b ; τοιουτονί τι παρακεκινδυνευμένον a bold, venturous phrase, Ar. Ra. 99 ; τὸ θρασὺ καὶ -ευμένον D.H. Comp. 23, cf. Is. 13 ; π. μάχαι desperate battles, Id. 9.30 ; π. ἔντευξις Plu. Caes. 9, etc.

3 to have the hardihood to, might almost

c. inf., to have the hardihood to . . , εἰπεῖν τὰ δίκαια Ar. Ach. 645, cf. X. HG 3.5.16 ; also παρεκινδύνευε . . παραλαμβάνεσθαι might almost be used, A.D. Synt. 16.23 :—so in Pass., τὸ -ευόμενον εἶναι ἐπίρρημα ib. 237.18, cf. 215.11.

in a double construction, τοὺς θεοὺς ἂν ἔδεισας -εύειν μὴ οὐκ ὀρθῶς ποιήσοις Pl. Euthphr. 15d.

In the wild

παρεκινδύνευςʼ · parekindyneusʼ Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 491)
παρακεκινδυνευμένον · parakekindyneumenon Aristophanes, Frogs 98–102
παρεκινδύνευσε · parekindyneuse Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 755)
παρακινδύνευʼ · parakindyneuʼ Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 6)
παρακινδυνεύειν · parakindyneuein Hippocrates, De aere aquis et locis 23 (DIORISIS sentence 434)
παρακινδυνεύειν · parakindyneuein Plato, Alcibiades 2 151

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