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προ-κρίνω [ι_],
A.choose before others, prefer, select, Th.4.80; “πρῶτον τῶν ἀγαθῶν αὐτὸ προκρίνοντες” Pl.Lg.870b, etc.; “προκρίνας οἵπερ ἀλκιμώτατοι” E.Ph.743, cf. 746, Hel. 47; “π. τινὰς ἐκ πάντων” Hdt.1.70:—Med., “τούτους ἐκ τῶν προκρίτων προκρινάμενος” Pl.R.537d:—Pass., to be preferred before others, ταῦτα ἦν τὰ προκεκριμένα [γένεα] the most eminent, Hdt.1.56, cf.9.26; “εἴ τις δ᾽ ὑμῶν κάλλει προκριθῇ” Cratin.28; “προκριθῆναι ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν ἄρχοντα” X.An. 6.1.26, cf. HG6.5.34; “ὁ προκριθεὶς καὶ ὁ προκρίνων” Pl.Lg.765e; “ἐκ τῶν εἰκοσιετῶν οἱ προκριθέντες” Id.R.537b; “ἄλλους ἀνθ᾽ ἡμῶν προκριθῆναι” Isoc.Ep.9.17: folld. by inf., “τοῦτο προκέκριται κάλλιστον εἶναι” X.Cyr. 2.3.8, cf. Ap.21.
b. make a preliminary selection of candidates for office, Arist.Ath.8.1, al.:—Pass., “προεκρίθην κληροῦσθαι” D.57.46, cf. 47,62.
2. c. gen., prefer before, “ῥώμην τῆς σοφίης” Xenoph.2.14; “τὸ ἐπιεικὲς τοῦ δικαίου” Gorg.Fr.6; “οὓς αὐτοὶ ἑαυτῶν ἐν ταῖς ἀρχαῖς προκρίνουσιν” Pl.Ap.35b:—Pass., “τῶν ἄλλων προκεκρίσθαι” Hdt.2.121.ζ᾽; προκρίνονται παντὸς οὑτινοσοῦν οἱ νόμοι Wilcken Chr.27.5 (ii A.D.).
II. judge beforehand, distinguish, “βαρὺ καὶ κοῦφον ἁφὰ . . π.” Ti.Locr.100d: c. acc. et inf., judge, decide beforehand that . . , X. Ap.15, Isoc.4.4, 11.11, etc.; π. μάχην δι᾽ ἱππέων decide the battle by the horse before the foot comes up, prob. (for προκινεῖν) in D.S.17.19.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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