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παρέλκω , fut.
A.“-ελκύσω” LXX Si.29.8 (v.l. -ελκύσῃς) : aor. “-είλκυσα” Ar.Nu.553 : pf. “-είλκυκα” PMagd.6.10(iii B. C.) : pf. Pass. -είλκυς μαι : —draw aside, “π. πραγμάτων ὀρθὰν ὁδόν” Pi.O.7.46 ; π. τὸ ἀκόντισμα draw it out sideways, Plu.Cam.2 ; π. ἑαυτόν withdraw secretly, Id.Cleom.8 ; π. τινὰ ἀπὸ . . Chrysipp. ap. D.L.7.182 (v. l.); “π. ἡ φαντασία πρός τι” S.E.P.2.77 :—Med., draw aside to oneself, get hold of by craft, “οὕνεκα τῶν μὲν δῶρα παρέλκετο” Od.18.282.
2. lead alongside, as a led horse, Hdt.3.102 :—Med., ὁ ἐλαύνων τὸν ἕτερον παρέλκεται Harp.s.v. ἅμιπποι :—Pass., παρέλκεσθαι ἐκ γῆς to be towed from the bank, Hdt. 2.96.
3. κενὰς παρέλκειν （τὰς κώπας, acc. to Sch.) pull them through the air, without dipping them, i. e. make a mere show of working, Ar.Pax 1306.
4. drag in, ὅταν ἀπορήσῃ . . , τότε π. αὐτόν (sc. τὸν νοῦν) Arist.Metaph.985a20 ; τὰ Ἰουδαϊκὰ εἰς τὸν μῦθον π. Plu.2.363d :— Pass., to be brought in as an accompaniment, Phld.Mus.p.95 K.
5. lug on the stage, or maul a play, “Εὔπολις μὲν τὸν Μαρικᾶν . . παρείλκυσεν” Ar.Nu.553.
II. spin out in time, “τὰ κατὰ τὸν κίνδυνον π. ὀλίγας ἡμέρας” Plb.2.70.3, etc.; μηδὲν παρέλκων without delay, SIG306.43 (Tegea, iv B. C.) : c. acc., put off, fob off, τινα PMagd.l.c., etc.: abs., μὴ μύνῃσι παρέλκετε put not things off by excuses, Od.21.111 ; also “π. τὸν χρόνον” D.H.2.45, Luc.Am.54 :—Pass., to be delayed, Plb.5.30.5, 22.4.11, D.H.10.19.
III. intr., to be prolonged, continue, Luc.Am.25, Eun.Hist.p.260 D.; “ἡδονῆς παρέλκοντα μέτρα” Luc.Am.21.
2. to be redundant, “περιττὰ καὶ παρέλκοντα” Ph.1.227, cf. Phld.D.3.14, Arr. Epict.1.7.29, S.E.P.2.175 ; περὶ τῶν παρελκόντων λόγων, title of work by Chrysippus, Stoic.2.7 : so in Gramm., “τὰ παρέλκοντα” A.D.Pron. 3.6 :—Pass., τὰ ἐκ περιττοῦ παρελκόμενα τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασι things merely appended to the arts, extraneous additions to them, Plb.9.20.6, cf. D.H.4.20, Plu.2.386d, A.D.Pron.79.27.
IV. intr., to be derived, ἀπό . . ib.6.16.
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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