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παρασοφ-ίζομαι

parasophizomai

apply art wrongly, refine overmuch

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

παρασοφ-ίζομαι · parasoph-izomai — LSJ

apply art wrongly, refine overmuch

apply art wrongly, refine overmuch, π. πονηρῶς Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.199.

2 wish to be wiser than

c. acc., π. τὸν ἰατρόν wish to be wiser than the physician, Arist. Rh. 1375b21 ; π. ταῖς δόξαις τὴν φύσιν Agatharch. 49.

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παρασοφίζεσθαι · parasophizesthai Aristotle, Rhetoric 1

Where it came from

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