The corpus record

παραπόλλυμι

parapollumi

destroy, consume

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Where it lives

Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Against Midias 1 · 0.67/10k

What it meant

παραπόλλυμι · parapollymi — LSJ

destroy, consume, spend to no purpose, waste, lose, perish, qualis artifex pereo!

destroy, consume or spend to no purpose, waste, lose, τὸν αῦλον Plu. Virt. doc. 2.439e, cf. Gal. UP 12.5 ; καιρόν Charito 1.7 ; ἡλικίαν τὴν ἐκ τῆς Ἰταλίας D.C. 74.2 :—more freq. in Med. and Pass., with pf. 2 παραπόλωλα, perish, παραπολεῖ βοώμενος Ar. V. 1228 ; παραπόλωλεν ἡ τέχνη Dionys.Com. 2.35 ; ἠτίμωται καὶ παραπόλωλεν D. 21.91 ; ἀκαρὴς παραπόλωλας Men. 835 ; ὁ βίος μελλησμῷ παραπόλλυται Epicur. Sent. Vat. 14 ; λιμῷ παραπολοῦμαι PCair.Zen. 160.5 (iii B. C.), cf. PPetr. 3p.74 (iii B.C.), Sor

In the wild

παραπολεῖ · parapolei Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 904)
παραπόλωλεν · parapolōlen Demosthenes, Against Midias 91 (DIORISIS sentence 272)

Where it came from

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