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παραχρῆμα

parachrema

on the spot, forthwith

Appears 32 times across Plato's dialogues.

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παραχρῆμα, Adv. for παρὰ τὸ χρῆμα (cf. χρέος) A. on the spot, forthwith, Hdt. 3.15, 7.150, Lys. 25.17, etc.; πάλαι τε καὶ οἱ πλεῖστοι π. Th. 7.75 ; εἰ καὶ μὴ π., ἀλλʼ ὀλίγον ὕστερον Isoc. 18.64 ; ταχέως καὶ π. Cratin. 6 ; at the moment, π. τέρψασαι Critias 6.23 (nisi divisim scribendum) ; τὰ π. the present, opp. τὰ μέλλοντα, Th. 1.138 ; ἡ π. ἀνάγκη present necessity, Id. 2.17 ; τὸ π. περιχαρές ib.51 ; τὸ π. περιδεές Id. 8.1 ; τὸ π. ἡδύ immediate pleasure, Pl. Prt. 356a ; αἱ π. ἡδοναί Antipho Soph. 58 : with the Art., τὸ π. Hdt. 6.11, etc.; ἐκ τοῦ π. λέγειν to speak offhand, Pl. Cra. 399d, cf. D. 1.1 ; ἐκ τοῦ π. στρατεύεσθαι X. HG 6.4.11 ; αἱ ἐκ τοῦ π. ἡδοναί Id. Mem. 2.1.20 ; λέγειν ἀπὸ τοῦ π. Id. HG 1.1.30 ; ἐν τῷ π. Antipho 5.73, Pl. R. 455a, etc.; ἐς τὸ π. ἀκούειν Th. 1.22 ; ἀσθενεῖς εἰς τὸ π. γίγνονται Pl. Lg. 646c.—More freq. in Hdt. and Att. Prose than in later writers (hence expld. by Hsch. παραχρῆμα· παραυτίκα . . , εὐθέως), cf. Call. Fr. 106.3, SIG 577.12 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.), Plu. Cam. 42 ; νόμοι ἐκ τοῦ π. κείμενοι Jul. ad Them. 262a ; ἐκ τοῦ π. εἰπεῖν Plu. 2.6e, cf. Longin. 18.2 ; ἐν τῷ π. Aristid. 2.407 J. :—hence Cobet treats ἄρτι, εὐθύς, εὐθέως, when joined with παραχρῆμα as glosses, π. ἄρτι X. HG 1.4.14 ; εὐθέως π. Antipho 1.20 ; εὐθὺς π. Is. 1.11, Din. 1.94, D. 48.40. 2. in later writers, c. gen., π. τῆς εὐεργεσίας D.Chr. 11.130 ; π. τῆς διαβάσεως Eun. Hist.p.240 D., cf. Gp. 10.75.16.
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