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  • She returned to Eudora with a very thoughtful countenance; and though she often gathered flowers for "the tall infant," as she called Paralus, she could never after be persuaded to enter his apartment.

    Philothea A Grecian Romance Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841

  • Lysander also captured the entire fleet, with the exception of the sacred trireme called the Paralus, and the eight ships which escaped with Konon.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • The Salaminia and the Paralus were the two sacred state-galleys of Athens, used only on special missions.

    Pericles Plutarch 1909

  • [Footnote: A ship called Paralus generally used on religious missions or to carry public dispatches.] from our coast, and you could neither prevent these things nor send succors by the appointed time.

    The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1837

  • Conon's own ship, with seven others in attendance on him and the "Paralus," (9) put out to sea, a little cluster of nine vessels, with their full complement of men; but every one of the remaining one hundred and seventy-one vessels were captured by Lysander on the beach.

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • Cyprus, while the "Paralus" started for Athens with tidings of what had taken place.

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • It was night when the "Paralus" reached Athens with her evil tidings, on receipt of which a bitter wail of woe broke forth.

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • It was night when the “Paralus” reached Athens with her evil tidings, on receipt of which a bitter wail of woe broke forth.

    Hellenica 2007

  • He further procured from the Athenians for his use not only any vessels cruising on the coast of Attica, but the Paralus and Salaminia526 also, remarking that, if things turned out well yonder, he would soon send them back plenty of ships.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Cyprus, while the “Paralus” started for Athens with tidings of what had taken place.

    Hellenica 2007

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