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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[juxtaposition]], [[comparison]], τῶν βίων Pl.Phlb.33b; παραβολὴ καὶ [[σύγκρισις]] Plb.1.2.2; [[ἐν παραβολῇ]] = [[by juxtaposition]], Arist.Top.104a28, cf. 157a14; ἐκ παραβολῆς Id.Rh.1420a4.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[comparison]], [[illustration]], [[analogy]], τὴν παραβολὴν ἀπρεπῆ πεποιῆσθαι Isoc.12.227; παραβολὴ δὲ τὰ Σωκρατικά = [[comparison]] is illustrated by the [[saying]]s of [[Socrates]] (distinguished from [[λόγος]], [[apologue]]) Arist.Rh.1393b3; ἐκ τῶν θηρίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν παραβολὴν Id.Pol.1264b4.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[NT]], [[parable]], Ev.Marc.12.1, al.; [[type]], Ep. Hebr.9.9, 11.19.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[by-word]], [[proverb]], [[LXX]] Ez.18.2, Ev.Luc.4.23; in bad sense, ἔθου ἡμᾶς εἰς παραβολὴν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι = you made us into a [[byword]] among the [[nation]]s [[LXX]] Ps.43(44).14, cf. Wi.5.3.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[objection]] to an [[argument]], Phld.Rh.1.5 S.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[moving]] [[side by side]], ἐκ παραβολῆς [νεῶν] μάχεσθαι to [[fight]] a [[sea]]-[[fight]] [[broadside]] to [[broadside]], Plb.15.2.13, cf. D.S.14.60.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[sidelong direction]], [[obliquity]], διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ παραβολῶν Plu.Arat.22.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[venture]], D.S.27.17, [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in Th.1.131.<br><span class="bld">V</span> Astron., [[conjunction]], παραβολαὶ ἀλλήλων Pl.Ti.40c, cf. Procl. in Ti.3.146 D., Plot.3.1.5, Iamb.Myst.9.4: also [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[περιβολή]], τοῦ ἡλίου Max.Tyr.17.9.<br><span class="bld">VI</span> Math., [[division]], opp. [[multiplication]], Dioph.4.22; [[quotient]], ib.10: hence, [[section]] produced by [[division]] of a [[line]], Nicom.Ar.2.27.<br><span class="bld">VII</span> Geom., [[application]], παραβολὴ τῶν χωρίων Pythag. ap. Procl.in Euc.p.419 F.; τὰ ἐκ τῆς παραβολῆς γενηθέντα σημεῖα = the points resulting from the [[application]] of axes to a [[surface]], of the foci of an [[ellipse]] or [[hyperbola]], points found by [[application]] of an area to the [[axis]], Apollon.Perg.Con.3.45, cf. 48.<br><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.1.11.<br><span class="bld">VIII</span> = [[παράβολον]] (v. [[παράβολος]] III. ''1''), Arist.Oec.1348b13 ([[variae lectiones|vv.ll.]] [[παράβολον]], [[παραβόλιον]]), OGI41.5 (Samos, iii B. C., pl.). PPetr.3p.232 (iii B. C., pl.).