παρακῑν-έω (parakineo)

Where it lives

Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Enneads 5 · 0.24/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

παρακῑν-έω · parakin-eō — LSJ

move aside, disturb, raise troubles, enter into conspiracies, revolutionary

move aside, disturb, τι Pl. R. 591e (unless intr., v. infr. II.2): abs., raise troubles, enter into conspiracies, D. 15.12, Luc. Rh. Pr. 5 ; τὸ -κινοῦν μέρος the revolutionary element, D.H. 7.55.

2 excite violently, madden, to be distracted, to be violently excited, incited, urge

excite violently, madden, Thphr. HP 9.19.1 :—Pass., to be distracted, Arg. S. Aj. ; εἴς τι to be violently excited or incited to . . , Luc. Hist.Conscr. 1 ; ὑπόθερμος καὶ παρακεκινημένος Id. Cal. 5 ; later, simply, urge, c. inf., Mantiss.Prov. 2.46.

3 stir up, raise a question about

metaph., stir up, i.e. raise a question about, τὸν Ἀριστοτέλη Plu. QConv. 2.656c.

II to be disturbed, become turbid

intr., to be disturbed, become turbid, Thphr. CP 6.7.6.

2 shift oneʼs ground, change

shift oneʼs ground, change, Pl. R. 540a, 591e (cf. I.1), D.H. 3.10.

3 to be highly excited, impassioned, feel, impulse, to be in a state of ferment, to be out of oneʼs senses, out of his senses

to be highly excited or impassioned, ἐπὶ τοῖς ὡραίοις X. Mem. 4.2.35 ; πρὸς τὰς ἡδονάς Theopomp. Hist. 111 [2b 115 Jacoby] ; μηδὲν παρακινέειν feel no sexual impulse, Hp. Aër. 22; of political unrest, to be in a state of ferment, π. τὰ τάγματα Plu. Galb. 13 ; to be out of oneʼs senses, παρακεκινηκὼς ὑφʼ ἡλικίας Com.Adesp. 885 ; νουθετεῖται . . ὡς παρακινῶν as out of his senses, Pl. Phdr. 249d ; τῇ διανοίᾳ παρακεκινηκώς D.S. 24.3, cf. 10.14.

In the wild

παρακινῶν · parakinōn Plato, Phaedrus 249 (DIORISIS sentence 432)
παρακινήσουσι · parakinēsousi Plato, Republic 7.540 (DIORISIS sentence 4707)
παρακινῇ · parakinēi Plato, Republic 9.591 (DIORISIS sentence 5814)
παρακινεῖ · parakinei Plotinus, Enneads 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 268)
παρακινεῖ · parakinei Plotinus, Enneads 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 306)
παρακινοῦσιν · parakinousin Plotinus, Enneads 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1417)

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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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