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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /en pa.ra.býs.tɔːi̯/ → /en pa.raˈβys.to/ → /en pa.raˈvis.to/
Prepositional phrase
ἐν πᾰρᾰβύστῳ • (en parabústōi)
- sneakily, on the sly, in a hole-and-corner
384 BCE – 322 BCE,
Demosthenes,
Against Timocrates 47:
- οὐκ εἰς τὴν βουλήν, οὐκ εἰς τὸν δῆμον εἰπὼν περὶ τούτων οὐδέν, ἐν παραβύστῳ, τῆς βουλῆς μὲν ἀφειμένης, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων διὰ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἱερομηνίαν ἀγόντων, λάθρα τὸν νόμον εἰσήνεγκεν.
- ouk eis tḕn boulḗn, ouk eis tòn dêmon eipṑn perì toútōn oudén, en parabústōi, tês boulês mèn apheiménēs, tôn d’ állōn dià tḕn heortḕn hieromēnían agóntōn, láthra tòn nómon eisḗnenken.
- without laying any proposition before the Council or before the Assembly, on the sly, when the Council stood adjourned, and everybody was holiday-making in honor of the festival, he brought in his bill surreptitiously.
- English translation (1939) by A. T. Murray. @perseus.tuftus.edu
384 BCE – 322 BCE,
Aristotle,
Topics 157a:
(VIII)- Διὸ καὶ λανθάνουσιν ἐνίοτε οἱ ἐρωτῶντες ἐν παραβύστῳ προστιθέντες ἃ καθ’ αὑτὰ προτεινόμενα οὐκ ἂν τεθείη.
- Diò kaì lanthánousin eníote hoi erōtôntes en parabústōi prostithéntes hà kath’ hautà proteinómena ouk àn tetheíē.
- That is why, the ones who ask questions are occasionally not detected, by sneakily adding propositions which would not stand separately.
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