The corpus record

παρα-πλήξ

paraplex · ὁ

stricken sideways

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Where it lives

Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
On the False Embassy 1 · 0.43/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

παρα-πλήξ · para-plēx — LSJ

stricken sideways, aslant, retreating, break obliquely

stricken sideways or aslant, ἠϊόνες π. a retreating beach, on which the waves break obliquely, Od. 5.418.

II mad

metaph., = παράπληκτος, mad, Hdt. 5.92.ζʹ, Ar. Pl. 242, X. Oec. 1.13, Demetr. Eloc. 275.

2 paralysed

paralysed, Hp. Acut.(Sp.) 7.

3 paralyses

pl., paralyses, Id. Morb. 1.3, Aret. CA 1.4.

In the wild

παραπλῆγʼ · paraplēgʼ Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 207)
παραπλῆγας · paraplēgas Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Concl.267 (DIORISIS sentence 939)
παραπλῆγά · paraplēga Herodotus, Histories 5.92F.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6004)
παραπλῆγας · paraplēgas Odyssey 5.418
παραπλῆγας · paraplēgas Odyssey 5.440
παραπλῆγες · paraplēges Xenophon, Economics 1.13 (DIORISIS sentence 45)

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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