parapegm

Latin parapegma, Ancient Greek [Term?] to fix beside: compare French parapegme.

parapegm (plural parapegms)

1. (Ancient Greece) An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

   Parapegms were used for the publication of laws, proclamations, and the recording of astronomical phenomena or calendar events.

• parapegma

• “parapegm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.