παραβολή

parabole

juxtaposition, comparison

Appears 13 times across Aristotle's works.

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Rhetoric 4
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Book II 3
Chapter 20 1393a23–1394a18

1393a30
1393b4
1394a4
Book III 1
Chapter 19 1419b10–1420a8

1420a4
Topics 4
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Book I 1
Chapter 10 104a3–37

104a28
Book VIII 3
Chapter 1 155b3–157a17

156b25
157a14

Chapter 14 163a29–164b19

164a15
Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book VII 2
Chapter 12 1244b1–1246a25

1244b23
1245b13
Metaphysics 1
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Book Ζ 1
Chapter 11 1036a26–1037b7

1036b24
Politics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 5 1262b37–1264b25

1264b4
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 17 175a31–176b28

176a33

Dictionary (LSJ)

παραβολή, ἡ, A. juxtaposition, comparison, τῶν βίων Pl. Phlb. 33b; π. καὶ σύγκρισις Plb. 1.2.2; ἐν παραβολῇ by juxtaposition, Arist. Top. 104a28, cf. 157a14; ἐκ παραβολῆς Id. Rh. 1420a4. 2. comparison, illustration, analogy, τὴν π. ἀπρεπῆ πεποιῆσθαι Isoc. 12.227; π. δὲ τὰ Σωκρατικά (distd. from λόγος, apologue) Arist. Rh. 1393b3; ἐκ τῶν θηρίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π. Id. Pol. 1264b4. 3. NT, parable, Ev.Marc. 12.1, al.; type, Ep. Hebr.9.9, 11.19. 4. by-word, proverb, LXX Ez. 18.2, Ev.Luc. 4.23; in bad sense, εἰς π. ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι LXX Ps. 43(44).14, cf. Wi. 5.3. 5. objection to an argument, Phld. Rh. 1.5 S. II. moving side by side, ἐκ παραβολῆς [νεῶν] μάχεσθαι to fight a sea-fight broadside to broadside, Plb. 15.2.13, cf. D.S. 14.60. III. sidelong direction, obliquity, διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ π. Plu. Arat. 22. IV. venture, D.S. 27.17, v.l. in Th. 1.131. V. Astron., conjunction, παραβολαὶ ἀλλήλων Pl. Ti. 40c, cf. Procl. in Ti. 3.146 D., Plot. 3.1.5, Iamb. Myst. 9.4: also f.l. for περιβολή, τοῦ ἡλίου Max.Tyr. 17.9. VI. Math., division, opp. multiplication, Dioph. 4.22; quotient, ib.10: hence, section produced by division of a line, Nicom. Ar. 2.27. VII. Geom., application, π. τῶν χωρίων Pythag. ap. Procl. in Euc.p.419 F.; τὰ ἐκ τῆς π. γενηθέντα σημεῖα, of the foci of an ellipse or hyperbola, points found by application of an area to the axis, Apollon.Perg. Con. 3.45, cf. 48. 2. parabola, because the square on the ordinate is equal to a rectangle whose height is equal to the abscissa applied to the parameter, ib.1.11. VIII. = παράβολον (v. παράβολος III. 1), Arist. Oec. 1348b13 (vv. ll. παράβολον, -βόλιον), OGI 41.5 (Samos, iii B. C., pl.). PPetr. 3p.232 (iii B. C., pl.).

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