παραπήγνῡμι (parapegnumi)

Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

παραπήγνῡμι · parapēgnymi — LSJ

fix beside, near, engraft

fix beside or near, as a spear in the ground, Hdt. 4.71 :—in Med., of stakes to support vines, χάρακα παραπήξασθαι ταῖς ἀμπέλοις Poll. 1.224 : hence, metaph. in Act., παραινέσεις π. τοῖς νέοις Plu. l.c. ; also, engraft a twig, Id. QConv. 2.640f.

2 add by way of note

of Gramm., add by way of note, Eust. 190.33, 300.22, etc.

II to be fixed beside

Pass., with pf. 2 -πέπηγα, to be fixed beside, of spears, παρὰ δʼ ἔγχεα μακρὰ πέπηγεν Il. 3.135 ; ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν τὰ ξύλα π. Hp. Fract. 13 ; of the pegs in a παράπηγμα I, Berl.Sitzb. 1904.102 (Milet.).

2 to be affixed to, to be engrafted, are annexed to

to be affixed to, [τῷ βωμῷ] παρεπεπήγεσαν δᾷδες Callix. 2 ; to be engrafted, Thphr. CP 5.6.10 : metaph., αἱ λῦπαι ταῖς ἡδοναῖς παραπεπήγασι are annexed to . . , Isoc. 1.46 ; ταῖς βασιλείαις ὸ φθόνος παρεπεπήγει Lib. Or. 59.151, cf. Hierocl. in CA 25p.475M.

3 to be petrified

to be petrified, Luc. Im. 1.

III register as on a παράπηγμα Ι

Med., register as on a παράπηγμα Ι, τὰ τοῦ κόσμου παθήματα πρὸς τὸν αἰῶνα Pl. Ax. 370c.

In the wild

παραπήγνυσιν · parapēgnysin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2345)
παραπήξαντες · parapēxantes Herodotus, Histories 4.71.4 (DIORISIS sentence 4507)

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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