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παρρησί-α

parresia · ἡ

outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech

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Where it lives

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What it meant

παρρησί-α · parrēsi-a — LSJ

outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech

outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech, claimed by the Athenians as their privilege, ἐλεύθεροι παρρησίᾳ θάλλοντες οἰκοῖεν πόλιν κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν E. Hipp. 422, cf. Ion 672 ; παρρησίᾳ φράζειν Id. Ba. 668 ; ἔχειν π. Id. Ph. 391 ; οὔσης παρρησίας Ar. Th. 541 ; διδόναι π. τισί Isoc. 2.28 ; ἐλευθερίας ἡ πόλις μεστὴ καὶ π. γίγνεται Pl. R. 557b ; τἀληθῆ μετὰ παρρησίας ἐρῶ D. 6.31 ; τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων π. ἀποδόμενος Din. 2.1 ; δημοκρατίας οὔσης οὐκ ἔστι π. Isoc. 8.14 ; π. καὶ ἰσηγορία καὶ δημοκρατία

2 licence of tongue

in bad sense, licence of tongue, ἡ εἰς τοὺς θεοὺς π. Isoc. 11.40, cf. Pl. Phdr. 240e, Cic. Att. 1.16.8.

3 freedom of action, power, licence, permission, without fear, openly

freedom of action, Aristaenet. 2.7 ; π. ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου power of life and death, Vett.Val. 6.3, al. ; licence, permission, Just. Nov. 1.1.1 ; παρρησίᾳ ἐκτέμνεται τὸ δέρμα without fear, Aët. 15.8 ; ἤγαγον ὑμᾶς μετὰ παρρησίας openly, LXX Le. 26.13.

4 liberality, lavishness, copia

liberality, lavishness, κεκόσμηκε τὸν αὑτοῦ βίον τῇ καλλίστῃ π. OGI 323.10 (Pergam., ii B.C.); ἐπὶ τῇ . . τῶν καμάτων καὶ πάσης ἐπιμελείας παρρησίᾳ IG 5(1).547 (Sparta, iii A.D.) ; = copia, Gloss.

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