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παρά-κλησις , εως, ἡ,
A.calling to one's aid, summons, οἱ ἐκ παρακλήσεως συγκαθήμενοι a packed party in the assembly, D.18.143.
2. imploring, appealing, τινος of or on the part of one, Th.4.61 ; deprecation, συγγνώμης δεῖ καὶ π. Str.13.1.1.
3. invocation of gods, Iamb. Myst.4.3 (pl.).
4. demand, request, PGrenf.1.32.7 (pl., ii B.C.), etc.; κατὰ-σιν on demand, PLond.3.1164d10 (iii A. D.).
II. exhortation, address, “πρὸς τὸν ὄχλον” Th.8.92 ; οὐ π. εὑρόντες, ἀλλὰ παραίνεσιν γράψαντες not a mere address to their feelings, but counsel to act rightly, Isoc.1.5 ; “π. τῶν πολιτῶν πρὸς ἀρετήν” Aeschin.1.117 ; “τὴν τῆς σωφροσύνης παράκλησιν . . αὐτοὺς παρακέκληκα” Id.2.180 ; “ἀξιώσεισκαὶ-κλήσεις” Plb.1.67.10.
III. consolation, LXX Is.30.7, Na.3.7, Ep.Hebr.6.18, Phalar.Ep.103.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 117
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