The corpus record

παράπλοος

paraploos · ὁ

coasting voyage

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Where it lives

Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
History 9 · 0.6/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

παράπλοος · paraploos — LSJ

coasting voyage, passage

coasting voyage, τῆς Ἰταλίας καλῶς παράπλου κεῖται Th. 1.36 ; ἐν παράπλῳ κεῖσθαι ib. 44, cf. 2.33, etc. ; simply, passage, POxy. 525.1 (ii A.D.), Luc. VH 1.28.

2 shore to be coasted along

shore to be coasted along, π. τραχὺς Πλατανιστὸς καλούμενος Str. 14.5.3, cf. 14.3.2 ; ὁ π. αὐτοῦ (sc. of the Red Sea) ἔχει νήσους μικράς D.S. 3.38.

II fit for coasting

Adj. fit for coasting, π. ποιησάμενος τοὺς Σιδητῶν παρῶνας Plb. Fr. 193.

In the wild

παράπλου · paraplou Septuaginta, Machabaeourum III 4
παράπλου · paraplou Thucydides, History 1.36.2 (DIORISIS sentence 223)
παράπλῳ · paraplōi Thucydides, History 1.44.3 (DIORISIS sentence 268)
παράπλῳ · paraplōi Thucydides, History 2.33.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1169)
παράπλῳ · paraplōi Thucydides, History 4.25.6 (DIORISIS sentence 2686)
παράπλῳ · paraplōi Thucydides, History 6.62.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4456)

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Where it came from

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