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|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[juxtaposition]], [[comparison]], τῶν βίων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>33b</span>; π. καὶ σύγκρισις <span class="bibl">Plb.1.2.2</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν παραβολῇ</b> 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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[comparison]], [[illustration]], [[analogy]], τὴν π. ἀπρεπῆ πεποιῆσθαι <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.227</span>; <b class="b3">π. δὲ τὰ Σωκρατικά</b> (distd. from [[λόγος]], [[apologue]]) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1393b3</span>; ἐκ τῶν θηρίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1264b4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[NT]], [[parable]], Ev.Marc.12.1, al.; <b class="b2">type, Ep. Hebr</b>.9.9, 11.19. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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 π. ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι <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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[objection]] to an argument, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.5 S. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[sidelong direction]], [[obliquity]], διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ π. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Arat.</span>22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[venture]], <span class="bibl">D.S.27.17</span>, v.l. in <span class="bibl">Th.1.131</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> Geom., [[application]], π. τῶν χωρίων Pythag. ap. <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">in Euc.</span>p.419</span> F.; <b class="b3">τὰ ἐκ τῆς π. 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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VIII</span> = [[παράβολον]] (v. [[παράβολος]] III. <span class="bibl">1</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Oec.</span>1348b13</span> (vv. ll. <b class="b3">παράβολον, -βόλιον</b>), <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>