παρρησί-α, ἡ,
(πᾶς, ῥῆσις) outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech, claimed by the Athenians as their privilege, ἐλεύθεροι παρρησίᾳ θάλλοντες οἰκοῖεν πόλιν κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 422, compare “Ion” 672; παρρησίᾳ φράζειν [prev. author] “Ba.” 668 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχειν π. [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 391; οὔσης παρρησίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 541; διδόναι π. τισί 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.28; ἐλευθερίας ἡ πόλις μεστὴ καὶ π. γίγνεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 557b; τἀληθῆ μετὰ παρρησίας ἐρῶ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.31; τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων π. ἀποδόμενος 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δημοκρατίας οὔσης οὐκ ἔστι π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.14; π. καὶ ἰσηγορία καὶ δημοκρατία 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.38.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ παρρησίας, title of work by Philodemus.
__2 in bad sense, licence of tongue, ἡ εἰς τοὺς θεοὺς π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.40, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240e, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 1.16.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 freedom of action, [[ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.7 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; π. ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου power of life and death, [[Vett. Val. 6.3, +others ] Refs]; licence, permission, [[ 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 1.1.1 ] Refs 6th c.AD+]; παρρησίᾳ ἐκτέμνεται τὸ δέρμα without fear, [[ 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 15.8 ] Refs 6th c.AD+]; ἤγαγον ὑμᾶς μετὰ παρρησίας openly, [[ LXX.Lev.26.13. ] LXX]
__4 liberality, lavishness, κεκόσμηκε τὸν αὑτοῦ βίον τῇ καλλίστῃ π. [[ “OGI” 323.10(Pergam., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τῇ.. τῶν καμάτων καὶ πάσης ἐπιμελείας παρρησίᾳ [[ “IG” 5(1).547 (Sparta, 3rd c.AD) ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; = copia, [[“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”] Refs]