παραμῡθ-έομαι,
encourage, exhort one to do a thing, with dative person et infinitive, τοῖς ἄλλοισιν ἐγὼ παραμυθησαίμην οἴκαδ᾽ ἀποπλείειν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.417, compare 684, 15.45: later with _dative_ _person_ only, “PFay.” 19.6 (2nd c.AD): also with _accusative_ _person_ et ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, πῶς οὖν αὐτοὺς παραμυθησόμεθα προθύμους εἶνα; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 666a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παραμυθοῦ μ᾽ (i.e. ποιεῖν) ὅ τι καὶ πείσεις [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1063 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θαρσεῖν (i.e. σε) οὐδὲν παραμυθοῦμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 935 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 speak soothingly to, with accusative, παρεμυθεῖτο attempted to reassure them, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.75, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 476e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; encourage a dog, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.25: _metaphorically_, παραμυθεῖται ὁ σκάφος τὴν διψῶσαν ἄμπελον “Geoponica” 3.5.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; console, comfort, τινα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121.δ᾽, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44, 4th c.BC: Alcidamas Rhetor “περὶ σοφιστῶν” 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 346b, +others; ἡ φιλοσοφία τὴν ψυχὴν ἠρέμα παραμυθεῖται [prev. author] “Phd.” 83a; π. τινὰ λόγοισι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 115; τινὰ ὀψαρίοις [prev. author] “fragment” 45; τινὰ ἐπὶ τῇ κολάσει 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 33; ἑαυτὸν τῆς ἥττης 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 48.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταῖς ἐλπίσιν τἀλγεινὰ π. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 641 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with neuter adjective, πόλλ᾽ ἂν εἶχέ τις αὑτὸν παραμυθήσασθαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.214 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. τὰς πόλεις ὡς.. console.. by saying that.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]