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πρόδρομ-ος , ον,
A.running forward with headlong speed, “π. ἦλθον” A.Th.211(lyr.); “φυγάδα πρόδρομον” S.Ant.108(lyr.), etc.; μόλε π. v.l. in E.Ph.296(lyr.).
2. running before, going in advance, “π. στρατιή” Hdt.9.14; “κήρυκας π. προπέμπειν” Id.1.60; “π. ἥκω” E.IA424; freq. of horsemen in advance of an army, Hdt.4.121, 122; “π. τῶν ἄλλων ἥκειν” Id.7.203, cf. Th.2.22; “λεὼς π. ἱππότας” A.Th.80(lyr.); mounted skirmishers, οἱ π. 'guides', a special corps in the Maced. army, Arr.An.1.12.7, cf. D.S. 17.17; “οἱ ἀμφὶ [τὸν ἵππαρχον] πρόδρομοι” X.Eq.Mag.1.25; at Athens, Arist.Ath.49.1; also, of light ships, Alciphr.1.11.
3. metaph., precursor, ἀστέρα . . ἀελίου π. Ion Lyr.10; “ἠπίαλος πυρετοῦ π.” Ar.Fr. 332(anap.); “δείπνου π. ἄριστον” Eub.75.13; “π. τοῦ δοκοῦντος καλλίστου εἶναι” Pl.Chrm.154a, cf. Plot.6.7.7.
4. π. (sc. οἶνος), v. πρότροπος.
II. as Subst., πρόδρομοι, οἱ,
1. v. supr. 1.2.
2. northerly winds, preceding the etesian winds, Arist.Mete.361b24, Pr. 941b7, Thphr.Vent.11.
3. early figs, Id.CP5.1.5 sq., cf. Plin.HN 16.113.
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, Seven Against Thebes, 211
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 80
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 49.1
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.17
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 424
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 296
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.121
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.203
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.60
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.14
    • Plato, Charmides, 154a
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 108
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 1.25
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.22
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.113
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 1.12.7
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