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ἐπίπροσθεν , rarely ἐπίπροσ-θε Antiph.250, SIG493.12 (Delos, iii B.C.), Adv.:
I.. of Place, before, ἐ. τίθεσθαι, ποιεῖσθαί τι, put before one as a screen, E.Or.468, X.Cyr.1.4.24; ἐ. γίγνεσθαι to be in the way, intercept the view, Pl.Grg.523d, cf. Ti.40c; κώμας καὶ γηλόφους ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι take cover behind, X.Cyr.3.3.28.
2.. c. gen., ἐ. τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν “ἔχειν” Pl.Smp.213a; “ταῖς νήσοις οὐδὲν ἐ. τῆς φορᾶς” Thphr.Vent.30; “εὐθὺ οὗ ἂν τὸ μέσον ἀμφοῖν τοῖν ἐσχάτοιν ἐ. ᾖ” Pl.Prm.137e.
II.. of Degree, θεῖναί τι ἐ. τινος prefer one before another, E.Supp.514; ἐ. εἶναί τινος to be better than . . , Id.Or.641; ἐ. τᾀσχρὰ . . τῶν καλῶν Antiph.l.c.; “ἐ. τι θέσθαι τινός” J.AJ2.4.3; γίγνεται ἐ. τοῦ δικαίου τὰ “τριακόσια τάλαντα” Id.BJ1.6.3.
III.. of Order, first, prior, τὰ ἐ. “αὐτῶν . . τάξαντες αὐτὰ ἐ. ποιησόμεθα” Pl.Lg.783b, 783c.
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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    • Euripides, Orestes, 468
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    • Plato, Timaeus, 40c
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.4.24
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