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παραπέτασμα

parapetasma · τό

that which is spread before

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Where it lives

Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Against Stephanus 1 1 · 1.77/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

παραπέτασμα · parapetasma — LSJ

that which is spread before, hanging, curtain, screen, cover

that which is spread before a thing, hanging, curtain, παραπετάσματα ποικίλα Hdt. 9.82 ; π. Μηδικά Ar. Ra. 938 ; τὸ π. τὸ Κύπριον Id. Fr. 611 ; π. λιτόν IG 1(2).330.6 : metaph., screen, cover, ταῖς τέχναις ταύταις παραπετάσμασιν ἐχρήσαντο Pl. Prt. 316e, cf. D. 45.19 ; τὰ χρήματα . . π. τοῦ βίου Alex. 340 ( = Antiph. 327) ; εἶχεν δὲ π. τὴν ἐρημίαν Men. 406.4.

II mantlets

pl., mantlets, Agath. 3.7.

In the wild

παραπετάσμασιν · parapetasmasin Aristophanes, Frogs 937–938
παραπετάσματι · parapetasmati Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 19 (DIORISIS sentence 57)
παραπετάσμασι · parapetasmasi Herodotus, Histories 9.82.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9859)
παραπετασμάτων · parapetasmatōn Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 270)
παραπετάσμασιν · parapetasmasin Plato, Protagoras 316
παραπετάσματα · parapetasmata Plato, Statesman 279

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Where it came from

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