[Meaning he/she/it] was entreating, was imploring. "When he came he was beseeching the Persian; but obtaining nothing of what he was asking for, he released [him] himself."
Herodotus [sc. says this].[1]
*paraitei=to: pareka/lei, e)lipa/rei. o( de\ e)lqw\n parh|tei=to to\n *pe/rshn: tugxa/nwn de\ ou)deno\s w(=n e)de/eto au)to\s e)/lusen. *(hro/dotos.
The headword is imperfect indicative middle, third person singular, of the verb
paraite/omai. The form as given here, and in the quotation, is an idiosyncratic mixture of Herodotean Ionic dialect
paraite/eto, and the standard Attic/Koine
parh|tei=to. The original text of
Herodotus reads
paraite/eto.
For other forms of this verb see
pi 504,
pi 505, and
pi 507 to
pi 510.
[1]
Herodotus 5.33.3 (slightly abridged), in reference to
Aristagoras of Miletus freeing his comrade Skylax from an unusual punishment inflicted by the Persian Megabates. See web address 1.
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