The corpus record

παραπείθω

parapeitho

win by persuasive arts, prevail upon

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Where it lives

Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Iliad 5 · 0.45/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k

What it meant

παραπείθω · parapeithō — LSJ

win by persuasive arts, prevail upon, beguile, cajole, may cajole, to be beguiled

win by persuasive arts, prevail upon, Il. 24.208 ; Πηλείωνα . . σπουδῇ παρπεπιθόντες 23.37, cf. 606, Od. 24.119 ; freq. with a notion of deceit or guile, beguile, cajole, ὅς μʼ ἄγε παρπεπιθὼν ᾗσι φρεσί Od. 14.290 : c. acc. et inf., μή σε ἔπεσσι παραιπεπίθῃσιν Ὀδυσσεὺς μνηστήρεσσι μάχεσθαι 22.213 ; παράπεισον . . ἐλθεῖν . . Ἰσμηνόν E. Supp. 60 (lyr.) :—rare in Prose, μή πῃ πρεσβύτας ἡμᾶς ὄντας . . παραπείσῃ may cajole us, Pl. Lg. 892d, cf. Nic.Dam. 130.24J. :—Pass., παραπεπεῖσθαι to be beguiled i

In the wild

παράπεισον · parapeison Euripides, Suppliants 2.60 (DIORISIS sentence 19)
παρέπεισεν · parepeisen Iliad 13.788
παραιπεπιθοῦσα · paraipepithousa Iliad 14.208
παρπεπιθόντες · parpepithontes Iliad 23.37
παρέπεισεν · parepeisen Iliad 23.606
παρέπεισεν · parepeisen Iliad 7.120

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