παραβολή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[juxtaposition]], [[comparison]], τῶν βίων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>33b</span>; παραβολὴ καὶ [[σύγκρισις]] <span class="bibl">Plb.1.2.2</span>; [[ἐν παραβολῇ]] = [[by juxtaposition]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Top.</span>104a28</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">157a14</span>; ἐκ παραβολῆς <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1420a4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[comparison]], [[illustration]], [[analogy]], τὴν παραβολὴν ἀπρεπῆ πεποιῆσθαι <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.227</span>; παραβολὴ δὲ τὰ Σωκρατικά = comparison is illustrated by the sayings of Socrates (distd. from [[λόγος]], [[apologue]]) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1393b3</span>; ἐκ τῶν θηρίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν παραβολὴν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1264b4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[NT]], [[parable]], Ev.Marc.12.1, al.; [[type]], Ep. Hebr.9.9, 11.19. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[by-word]], [[proverb]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ez.</span>18.2</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>4.23</span>; in bad sense, εἰς παραβολὴν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι = an example for the Gentiles <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ps.</span>43(44).14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Wi.</span>5.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[objection]] to an argument, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.5 S. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[moving]] [[side by side]], <b class="b3">ἐκ παραβολῆς [νεῶν] μάχεσθαι</b> to [[fight]] a [[sea]]-[[fight]] [[broadside]] to [[broadside]], <span class="bibl">Plb.15.2.13</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.S.14.60</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[sidelong direction]], [[obliquity]], διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ παραβολῶν <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Arat.</span>22</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[venture]], <span class="bibl">D.S.27.17</span>, [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in <span class="bibl">Th.1.131</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> Astron., [[conjunction]], παραβολαὶ ἀλλήλων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>40c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Procl. <span class="title">in Ti.</span>3.146</span> D., <span class="bibl">Plot.3.1.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">Myst.</span>9.4</span>: also f.l. for [[περιβολή]], τοῦ ἡλίου <span class="bibl">Max.Tyr.17.9</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> Math., [[division]], opp. [[multiplication]], <span class="bibl">Dioph.4.22</span>; [[quotient]], ib.<span class="bibl">10</span>: hence, [[section]] produced by [[division]] of a [[line]], <span class="bibl">Nicom.<span class="title">Ar.</span>2.27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VII</span> Geom., [[application]], παραβολὴ τῶν χωρίων Pythag. ap. <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">in Euc.</span>p.419</span> F.; <b class="b3">τὰ ἐκ τῆς παραβολῆς γενηθέντα σημεῖα</b>, of the foci of an [[ellipse]] or [[hyperbola]], points found by [[application]] of an area to the axis, <span class="bibl">Apollon.Perg.<span class="title">Con.</span>3.45</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">48</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[parabola]], because the [[square]] on the [[ordinate]] is [[equal]] to a [[rectangle]] whose [[height]] is [[equal]] to the [[abscissa]] applied to the [[parameter]], ib.<span class="bibl">1.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VIII</span> = [[παράβολον]] (v. [[παράβολος]] III. ''1''), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Oec.</span>1348b13</span> (vv. ll. [[παράβολον]], [[παραβόλιον]]), <span class="title">OGI</span>41.5 (Samos, iii B. C., pl.). <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.232</span> (iii B. C., pl.).</span>