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parapegm Gr. Antiq.|ˈpærəpɛm|
Now usually in Gr.-L. form parapegma |pærəˈpɛgmə|.
[ad. L. parapēgma, pl. -pēgmata, a. Gr. παράπηγµα, -πήγµατα, a thing fixed beside or near, a tablet, calendar, etc., f. παρα- beside + πῆγµα anything fastened. Cf. mod.F. parapegme.]
A tablet set up inscribed with some public information or announcement, as a law, a proclamation, or a calendar of annals or astronomical observations; a canon, rule, or precept; a fixed date or epoch.
αa1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. ii. (1642) 133 From what Parapegme or root of time, these 70. weekes or 490. yeares must be current, is a thing much perplexed and involved. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. (1686) 182 Our fore⁓fathers..set them down in their Parapegms or Astronomical Canons. 1755Johnson, Parapegm.
β1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. vi. §1 (ed. 3) 89 The want of certain parapegmata or some fixed periods of time. 1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 225 We see here an authentic parapegma in antient history, deduced from astronomy. 1788R. Porson in Museum Crit. I. 234 Diodorus..complains that he could find no parapegma on which he could rely, in relating the events that preceded the Trojan war. |