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|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[encourage]], [[exhort]] one <b class="b2">to do</b> a thing, c. dat. pers. et inf., τοῖς ἄλλοισιν ἐγὼ παραμυθησαίμην οἴκαδ' ἀποπλείειν <span class="bibl">Il.9.417</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">684</span>, <span class="bibl">15.45</span> : later c. dat. pers. only, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>19.6</span> (ii A. D.) : also c. acc. pers. et inf., <b class="b3">πῶς οὖν αὐτοὺς παραμυθησόμεθα προθύμους εἶναι</b>; <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 666a</span> ; <b class="b3">παραμυθοῦ μ'</b> (sc. <b class="b3">ποιεῖν</b>) ὅ τι καὶ πείσεις <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>1063</span> (anap.); <b class="b3">θαρσεῖν</b> (sc. σε) οὐδὲν παραμυθοῦμαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>935</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">speak soothingly to</b>, c. acc., <b class="b3">παρεμυθεῖτο</b> <b class="b2">attempted to reassure</b> them, <span class="bibl">Th.3.75</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>476e</span>, etc.; [[encourage]] a dog, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>6.25</span> : metaph., παραμυθεῖται ὁ σκάφος τὴν διψῶσαν ἄμπελον <span class="title">Gp.</span>3.5.4 ; [[console]], [[comfort]], τινα <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.121</span>.<b class="b3">δ'</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.44</span>, <span class="bibl">Alcid.<span class="title">Soph.</span>10</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>346b</span>, al.; ἡ φιλοσοφία τὴν ψυχὴν ἠρέμα παραμυθεῖται <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phd.</span>83a</span> ; π. τινὰ λόγοισι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>115</span> ; τινὰ ὀψαρίοις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>45</span> ; τινὰ ἐπὶ τῇ κολάσει <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Tox.</span>33</span> ; ἑαυτὸν τῆς ἥττης <span class="bibl">D.C.48.46</span> ; <b class="b3">ταῖς ἐλπίσιν τἀλγεινὰ π</b>. <span class="bibl">Men. 641</span> : c. neut. Adj., πόλλ' ἂν εἶχέ τις αὑτὸν παραμυθήσασθαι <span class="bibl">D.21.214</span> ; <b class="b3">π. τὰς πόλεις ὡς</b>… <b class="b2">console… by saying</b> that... <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>4.8.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[relieve]], [[assuage]], [[abate]], π. ὁ οἶνος τὴν τοῦ γήρως δυσθυμίαν <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 120</span> ; <b class="b3">Ἐπίκουρος τἀποθνῄσκειν π</b>. Demetr.Lac.<span class="title">Herc.</span>1013.13 ; ᾄδουσιν ἡσυχῇ τὸ ἔργον -ούμενοι <span class="bibl">D.Chr.1.9</span> ; π. τὰς ἐν στρατοπέδοις συμφοράς <span class="bibl">Onos.1.13</span> ; <b class="b3">π. τὸν φθόνον, τὸ πένθος, τὴν ξυμφοράν</b>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Alc.</span>13</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Philops.</span>27</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">DMort.</span> 28.3</span> ; [<b class="b3">θρίδακες] κόρυζαν π</b>. <span class="title">Gp.</span>12.13.11 ; <b class="b3">πῦρ ἀνάψαντες τὸ πικρὸν τοῦ κρυμοῦ π</b>. <span class="bibl">Alciphr.1.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">soflen down, palliate</b>, τὸ τῆς μοναρχίας ὄνομα <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Cleom.</span>11</span> ; διὰ τῶν τῆς γοργότητος ἰδίων τὸ λίαν ὕπτιον <span class="bibl">Hermog.<span class="title">Id.</span>2.4</span> ; <b class="b2">explain away</b>, τὸ μυθῶδες Plu.2.248b ; [[excuse]], τὴν ἀπὸ μικρῶν ἐπίκλησιν <span class="bibl">Str.13.1.64</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[support]], [[justify]] a thesis, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>7.66</span>, al., cf. παραμυθητέον <span class="bibl">3</span> ; [[explain]], <span class="bibl">Simp. <span class="title">in Ph.</span>9.32</span>.</span>