The corpus record

παράφραγμα

paraphragma · τό

breastwork on the top of a wall

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Where it lives

History 2 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

παράφραγμα · paraphragma — LSJ

breastwork on the top of a wall, mound, bulwarks, screen, curtain

breastwork on the top of a wall or mound, mostly in pl., Th. 4.115 ; of a ship, bulwarks, Id. 7.25 ; screen or curtain, Pl. R. 514b ; τὰ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου π. App. BC 2.118.

2 barrier

metaph. in sg., barrier, π. καὶ ἐμπόδιον Dam. Pr. 400.

In the wild

παραφράγματα · paraphragmata Plato, Republic 7.514 (DIORISIS sentence 4158)
παραφράγματα · paraphragmata Thucydides, History 4.115.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3246)
παραφράγματα · paraphragmata Thucydides, History 7.25.6 (DIORISIS sentence 4914)

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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