παραπλήσιος, α, ον
[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202, 4.128, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.78, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ος, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.37.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— coming alongside of: hence, coming near, nearly resembling; of numbers, nearly equal, about as many; of size, about as large; of age, about equal; etc.:
__1 absolutely, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοιαῦτα καὶ π. such and such-like, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς πράξεις ὁμοίας καὶ π. ἀποβαίνειν Isoc. [prev. cited]; ταὐτόν ἐστι σοφιστὴς καὶ ῥήτωρ, ἢ ἐγγύς τι καὶ παραπλήσιον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520a; ναυσὶ παραπλησίαις τὸν ἀριθμόν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.70; ἱππεῖς π. τὸ πλῆθος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.3.15; ἀγωνίζεσθαι πρὸς π. ἱππέας [prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 8.17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 frequently with dative, ἐν τῇ ναυμαχίῃ παραπλήσιοι ἀλλήλοισι ἐγίνοντο were about equal, of a drawn battle, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.16; νῆσοι Λέσβῳ μεγάθεα παραπλήσιαι [prev. author] 1.202; ἐσθὴς τῇ Κορινθίῃ παραπλησιωτάτη [prev. author] 5.87; π. τούτῳ καὶ ὅμοιον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.196 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅμοι᾽ ἢ π. τούτοις [[[prev. work]307: with _dative_ of the person for _dative_ of that which belongs to the person, ἔπαθε παραπλήσια τούτῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.78, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.14.2, etc.: rarely with _genitive_, [prev. author] 1.23.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦχος συριγμοῦ π. [[ 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 21.1 (in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 217b the _genitive_ ὧν is due to the attraction). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]