[Meaning] being assimilated to. "[He] initially being compared to the best of kings/emperors."[1]
Paraballomenos: exomoioumenos. ta prôta paraballomenos tois aristois tôn basileôn.
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb
paraba/llw,
I throw beside; see also
pi 270,
pi 271,
pi 272,
pi 273,
pi 275,
pi 276,
pi 277,
pi 279,
pi 280,
pi 281,
pi 513, and generally LSJ s.v.
[1] Adler identified the quotation as John of
Antioch fr.170 (FHG 4.603), now 254 Roberto (= Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus,
De virtutibus et vitiis [
On Virtues and Vices] 1.197.19-21); cf. generally
beta 246. The individual concerned, unidentifiable, appears to be a king or emperor who began well but went to the bad.
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