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Headword:
*parapai/wn
Adler number: pi,404
Translated headword: striking a false note
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] being mad, talking nonsense.[1]
"[He] failing to understand and striking a false note entirely".[2]
Greek Original:*parapai/wn: parafronw=n, lhrw=n. a)gnow=n kai\ parapai/wn o(losxerw=s.
Notes:
The headword, a present participle in the masculine nominative singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given (on which see n.2 below).
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius pi274 Theodoridis.
[2] Probably, as Adler's note suggests ('cf.'), an approximation of
Polybius 21.15.6 (L. Cornelius Scipio on
Heraclides, envoy of King
Antiochus III), where these two verbs are present infinitives rather than participles:
a)gnoei=n au)to\n e)/fh kai\ parapai/ein o(losxerw=s. See web address 1.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2010@05:39:22.
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