The corpus record

παραπέτομαι

parapetomai

fly alongside

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Where it lives

Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

παραπέτομαι · parapetomai — LSJ

fly alongside

fly alongside, κορώνη . . ἤδη πετομένων [τῶν νεοττῶν] σιτίζει παραπετομένη Arist. HA 563b12 ; τὰς π. μυίας Id. Pol. 1323a29.

2 fly past

fly past, of specks before the eyes, Gal. 1.363.

3 escape

escape, AP 6.19 (Jul.).

4 fly to, fly to oneʼs succour

fly to, ἡμῖν ἑρπετὸν παρέπτατο Semon. 13, cf. Philostr. VA 1.7 ; fly to oneʼs succour, οὐ γὰρ ἂν παρέπτετο Ar. Th. 1014 : metaph., παραπτῆναι, of a λόγος, Philostr. Her. 19.14.

In the wild

παρέπτετο · parepteto Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1015 (DIORISIS sentence 786)
παραπετομένας · parapetomenas Aristotle, Politics 1323a (DIORISIS sentence 2478)
παραπετομένων · parapetomenōn Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.15.1 (DIORISIS sentence 766)

Where it came from

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