παραμῡθ-ιον, τό,
address, exhortation, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 773e, 880a (both _plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; encouragement, τοῦ μὴ φοβεῖσθαι [[ [prev. author] “Euthd.” 272b. ] Refs]
__2 assuagement, abatement of, καμάτων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 130 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πυρσῶν of the fires of love, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.7; ἐλπὶς κινδύνῳ π. οὖσα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.103; παραμύθια ποιήσασθαι τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 632e, compare 704d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς γὰρ πλουσίοις πολλὰ π. φασιν εἶναι many consolations, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 329e, compare “Phdr.” 240d, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Morte - Papiri Ercolanesi” 19; λύπης παραμύθιον “epigram Gr.” 298.7 (from Teos), compare “IG” 3.768a. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 παραμύθια πλησμονῆς stimulants of a sated appetite, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 115b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]