The corpus record

παραπλήσσω

paraplesso

strike at the side

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Where it lives

Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k

What it meant

παραπλήσσω · paraplēssō — LSJ

strike at the side, to be palsy-stricken, to be deranged, mad, to be astonished at

strike at the side, τὰς νευράς, of a harper, Philostr. Im. 1.10 :—Pass., to be palsy-stricken : hence, to be deranged, mad, Ar. Lys. 831, Ec. 139, etc. ; γέλως παραπεπληγμένος E. HF 935 ; π. τὸν λογισμόν Plu. Aem. 34 ; παραπλήσσεσθαί τι to be astonished at . . , Agatharch. 103.

In the wild

παραπεπληγμένα · parapeplēgmena Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 100)
παραπεπληγμένον · parapeplēgmenon Aristophanes, Lysistrata 832 (DIORISIS sentence 615)
παραπεπληγμένῳ · parapeplēgmenōi Euripides, Heracles 935

Where it came from

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