The corpus record

παραφρον-έω

paraphroneo

to be beside oneself, deranged

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Where it lives

Letter 5 1 · 35.59/10k
Against Olympiodorus 4 · 11.4/10k
On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
On the Peace 2 · 2.53/10k
2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
Clouds 2 · 2.08/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παραφρον-έω · paraphron-eō — LSJ

to be beside oneself, deranged

to be beside oneself, deranged, Hdt. 1.109, 3.34, 35, A. Th. 806, S. Ph. 815, Ar. Nu. 844, Antipho 2.2.9, etc. : poet. παραιφρ- Theoc. 25.262 (v.l.).

2 to be delirious

to be delirious, v.l. in Hp. Prog. 10.

In the wild

παραφρονῶ · paraphronō Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 805
παραφρόνει · paraphronei Aristophanes, Clouds 1475 (DIORISIS sentence 1138)
παραφρονοῦντος · paraphronountos Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 674)
παραφρονεῖν · paraphronein Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 250 (DIORISIS sentence 188)
παραφρονεῖς · paraphroneis Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 826)
παραφρονοῦντος · paraphronountos Aristophanes, Frogs 1496–1499

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Where it came from

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