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παραμήκ-ης , ες,
A.oblong or oval, “ὑποχονδρίου σύντασις π. πρὸς ὀμφαλόν” Hp.Epid.1.26.β᾽ ; τρῆμα, αὐλῶνες, Plb.1.22.6, Agatharch.44 ; “λόφος” D.S.15.32 ; ἀσπίς, πίνακες, Ascl.Tact.1.3, Gem.16.4 ; π. σφαιροειδές prolate spheroid, Archim.Con.Sph.Praef., al.; “γῆ” Str.17.3.23 ; τὸ π. ἔντερον the rectum, Aret.SA2.10, SD1.7 ; of military formations, opp. “πλάγιος, φάλαγξ” Ascl.Tact.10.21, cf. Arr.Tact.26.2 : Comp. “-κέστερος” Gp.19.6.1 ; “κύκλου παραμηκεστέρου” Paus.5.26.3. Adv., Ion. παραμηκέως, κληΐς π. καταγεῖσα, of a bone fractured obliquely, opp. ἀτρεκέως, Hp.Art.14.
2. long, “π. ὅσον ἑξήκοντα σταδίων τὸ μῆκος” Str.9.1.22.
3. lengthened, of strokes in a letter, Aen. Tact. 31.3.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.32
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.26.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.3.23
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.1.22
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.22.6
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 14
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.10
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.7
    • Arrian, Tactica, 26.2
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