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παραχρῆμα

παραχρῆμα, on the spot, forthwith, straightway

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παραχρῆμʼ adverb of παραχρῆμα

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παραχρῆμα, Adv. for παρὰ τὸ χρῆμα (cf. χρέος)
  • on the spot, forthwith, Hdt. 3.15, 7.150, Lys. 25.17, etc.; πάλαι τε καὶ οἱ πλεῖστοι π. Th. 7.75; εἰ καὶ μὴ π., ἀλλʼ ὀλίγον ὕστερον Isoc. 18.64; ταχέως καὶ π. Cratin. 6; at the moment, π. τέρψασαι Critias 6.23 (nisi divisim scribendum); τὰ π. the present, opp. τὰ μέλλοντα, Th. 1.138; ἡ π. ἀνάγκη present necessity, Id. 2.17; τὸ π. περιχαρές ib. 51; τὸ π. περιδεές Id. 8.1; τὸ π. ἡδύ immediate pleasure, Pl. Prt. 356a; αἱ π. ἡδοναί Antipho Soph. 58: with the Art., τὸ π. Hdt. 6.11, etc.; ἐκ τοῦ π. λέγειν to speak offhand, Pl. Cra. 399d, cf. D. 1.1; ἐκ τοῦ π. στρατεύεσθαι X. HG 6.4.11; αἱ ἐκ τοῦ π. ἡδοναί Id. Mem. 2.1.20; λέγειν ἀπὸ τοῦ π. Id. HG 1.1.30; ἐν τῷ π. Antipho 5.73, Pl. R. 455a, etc.; ἐς τὸ π. ἀκούειν Th. 1.22; ἀσθενεῖς εἰς τὸ π. γίγνονται Pl. Lg. 646c.—More freq. in Hdt. and Att. Prose than in later writers (hence expld. by Hsch. παραχρῆμα· παραυτίκα . ., εὐθέως), cf. Call. Fr. 106.3, SIG 577.12 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.), Plu. Cam. 42; νόμοι ἐκ τοῦ π. κείμενοι Jul. ad Them. 262a (8); ἐκ τοῦ π. εἰπεῖν Plu. Lib.educ. 2.6e, cf. Longin. 18.2; ἐν τῷ π. Aristid. 2.407 J.:—hence Cobet treats ἄρτι, εὐθύς, εὐθέως, when joined with παραχρῆμα as glosses, π. ἄρτι X. HG 1.4.14; εὐθέως π. Antipho 1.20; εὐθὺς π. Is. 1.11, Din. 1.94, D. 48.40.
      • 2 in later writers, c. gen., π. τῆς εὐεργεσίας D.Chr. 11.130; π. τῆς διαβάσεως Eun. Hist. p.240 D., cf. Gp. 10.75.16.

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