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παρʼ (par)

παρʼ is an Ancient Greek form of παρά, meaning “beside, from, to; contrary to (+gen./dat./acc.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 8,489 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.530: εὐκόσμως σφετέροισι παρʼ ἔντεσιν ἑδριόωντο.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.6: … στι διὰ τὰς μετοικίας ἐς τὰ ἄλλα μὴ ὁμοίως αὐξηθῆναι· ἐκ γὰρ τῆς ἄλλης Ἑλλάδος οἱ πολέμῳ ἢ στάσει ἐκπίπτοντες παρ᾽ Ἀθηναίους οἱ δυνατώτατοι ὡς βέβαιον ὂν ἀνεχώρουν, καὶ πολῖται γιγνόμενοι εὐθὺς ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ μείζω ἔτι ἐποίησαν …

Euripides, Heracleidae 782: ὀλολύγματα παννυχίοις ὑπὸ παρ-

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.