Paradoxus, Latinè admirabilis dicitur, præter opinionem, & inauditus vndè Paradoxa neutro genere. Cicer.Sentences straunge and contrary to the opinion of the most part.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
părădoxus, a, um, adj., = para/docos, marvellous, strange, contrary to all expectation, paradoxical; only subst.I. pără-doxus, i, m., one who, contrary to expectation, has conquered both in the lucta and in the pancratium on the same day; in Gr. usu. called paradoconi/khs (late Lat.), Aug. Princip. Rhet. n. 9. The mimes were also called paradoxi, Vet. Schol. ad Juv. 8, 184.—II. părădoxum or -on i, n.A.A figure of speech: paradoxon, sive hypomone, sustentatio vel inopinatum. Hoc schema suspendit sensum: deinde subicit aliquid eo, contra exspectationem auditoris, sive magnum sive minus; et ideo sustentatio vel inopinatum dicitur, Rufin. Fig. Sentent. 34; Isid. 2, 21, 29.—B. In plur.: pără-doxa, ōrum, n., = para/doca, the apparently contradictory doctrines of the Stoics: haec para/doca illi. nos admirabilia dicamus, Cic. Fin. 4, 27, 74; cf.: (illa) mirabilia Stoicorum quae para/doca nominantur, id. Ac. 2, 44, 136: quae quia sunt admirabilia contraque opinionem omnium, ab ipsis (Stoicis) etiam para/doca appellantur, tentare volui, etc. id. Par. prooem. 4.
