παράδοξος, ον,
contrary to expectation, incredible, π. λόγος a paradox, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 472a; π. τε καὶ ψεῦδος [prev. author] “Plt.” 281a; παράδοξα λέγειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.16; ἂν παράδοξον εἴπω 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τοῦ παραδόξου καὶ παραλόγου contrary to all expectation, [[ [prev. author] 25.32, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.23 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; πολλὰ ποικίλλει χρόνος π. καὶ θαυμαστά 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 593; π. μοι τὸ πρᾶγμα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 1.6; τὸ ἔνδοξον ἐκ τοῦ π. θηρώμενος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 14 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; παράδοξα Stoical paradoxes, [[ [prev. author] 2.1060b] Refs] {παραδοξότης}: comparative, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.72 K., 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.9.2 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: superlative, [[ LXX.Wis.16.17 ] LXX]. adverb -ξως[[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.40, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.21.11, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.83] Refs 4th c.BC+]: superlative -ότατα[[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 67.11 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; -οτάτως [[2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.876. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II παράδοξος, title of distinguished athletes, musicians, and artists of all kinds, the Admirable, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 3.1442, 14.916, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.18.22, “IGRom.” 4.468 (Pergam., 3rd c.AD), “PHamb.” 21.3 (4th c.AD), “Rev.Ét.Gr.” 42.434 (Delph.), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]