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παραβάλλειν (paraballein)

παραβάλλειν is an Ancient Greek form of παραβάλλω, meaning “throw beside; compare”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus 5.2: καὶ ταῦτʼ ἔστιν ἅ τις ἂν αἰτιάσαιτο τοῦ ἀνδρός· τὰ δʼ ἄλλα πάντα λαμπρά, σωφροσύνης δὲ καὶ χρημάτων ἐγκρατείας ἕνεκα τοῖς ἀρίστοις καὶ καθαρωτάτοις τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἄξιον αὐτὸν παραβάλλειν, οὐκ Ἀλκιβιάδῃ μὰ Δία τῷ θρασυτάτῳ περὶ ταῦτα καὶ ὀλιγωροτάτῳ τοῦ καλοῦ γενομένῳ.

All forms of παραβάλλω (conjugation table)

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.