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πρόβουλος , ον, (βουλή)
A.deliberating beforehand or for others, Ἄτα prob.in A.Ag.386 (lyr.): but usu.
II. pl., standing committee to examine measures before they were formally proposed to the people, Arist.Pol.1298b29, 1299b31, 1322b16; at Megara, Ar.Ach.755; Corinth, Nic. Dam.60 J.; Corcyra, IG9(1).682.12; Delphi, GDI2642.26; of the ἀμνήμονες at Cnidus, Plu.2.292a; “ἀπαγγέλλειν . . δήμου προβούλοις” A.Th.1011.
2. of the delegates of the twelve Ionian states at the Panionium, Hdt.6.7; of delegates appointed to consult on the mode of meeting Xerxes, “π. τῆς Ἑλλάδος” Id.7.172.
3. at Athens, committee of Ten, appointed after the Sicilian defeat (cf. Th.8.1), Decr. ap.Arist.Ath.29.2, Ar.Lys.421, Lys.12.65, Arist.Rh.1419a28.
4. of the Roman consuls, D.H.4.76, 5.1.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 386
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    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 755
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.76
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