παρασκευ-ή, ἡ,
preparation, δείπνου [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρασκευὴν σίτου παραγγείλας having ordered corn to be prepared, [[ [prev. author] 3.25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369e; π. νεῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 190 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τούτῳ παρασκευῆς ἦσαν in this state of preparation, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; preparation, practice, as of a speaker preparing his speech, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.6; ἡ π. τῆς πραγματείας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.26.5 (elsewhere προκατασκευή, which see) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέγειν ἀπὸ παρασκευῆς, opposed to αὐτοσχεδίως, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor “De Figuris” 1.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also, in a speech, preparatory section, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isaeo” 15 (_plural_); compare παρασκευάζω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 3 near the end ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b with Preps., ἐκ παρασκευῆς of set purpose, by arrangement, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.19, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μάχη ἐγένετο ἐκ π. a pitched battle, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.56; ἀπὸ παρασκευῆς [prev. author] 1.133; ἀπὸ π. οὐδεμιᾶς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ὀλίγης παρασκευῆς at short notice, offhand, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8; τὸ ναυτικὸν ἐν π. ἦν [prev. author] 2.80 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦσαν ἐν π. πολέμου were engaged in preparing for it (compare κατασκευή), [[ [prev. author] 8.14; ἐν παρασκευῇ εἶναι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1382b3; μετὰ παρασκευῆς πλείστης ἠδίκησεν [prev. author] “Rh.Al.” 1427a4; ἄνευ παρασκευῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 326a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]