παράγγ-ελμα, ατος, τό,
message transmitted by beacons, φλογὸς παραγγέλμασιν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 480 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II order, word of command, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παράγγελμα ἐχόντων μὴ χωρίζεσθαι Test. cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.168 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ παραγγέλματος by word of command, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.99; ἐκ π. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.27.8, etc.; διδόναι τὰ παραγγέλματα [prev. author] 10.23.9; ἄρχων παντὸς π. LXX.1Ki.22.14. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II.b mobilization order, [[ PHib. 1.78 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; mobilization, μὴ εἶναί σε ἐμ βασιλικῷ π. [[ “PBaden” 48.10 (2nd c.BC),compare “Ostr.” 1535 (2nd c.BC), “PAmh.” 2.50.5 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 edict of a Roman governor, Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 202 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III instruction, precept, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 208, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 13.9, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Insomniis” 458b21; τὰ δικανικὰ π. [prev. author] “Rh.Al.” 1421b4; τὰ π. ὡς δεῖ ζῆν 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.57; π. σοφιστικά 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.89 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; τὸ π. τῶν τεχνῶν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25; τεχνικὰ π. 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 2.1; τούτῳ δέδωκεν ὁ Ζεὺς π. “SIG” 985.12 (Philadelphia, 1st c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; distinguished from τόπος, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 70. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]