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πρόθεσις , εως, ἡ, (προτίθημι)
A.placing in public; of a corpse, laying it out (cf. “προτίθημι” 11), Pl.Lg.947b, 959a, 959e, D.43.64.
2. public notice, “αἱ π. τῶν ἀναγεγραμμένων” Arist.Pol.1322a9.
3. statement of a case, Id.Rh.1414b8; ὑπέρ τινος τὴν πρόθεσιν ποιήσασθαι Id.Cat. 11a21; theme, thesis, Phld.Rh.1.36, al. S.: generally, proposition, statement, D.H.Amm.2.2.
4. πρόθεσιν ποιεῖσθαι ἐπὶ ταῖς . . προσόδοις to make payment in advance, IPE12.32A41 (Olbia, iii B.C.).
5. offering, PCair.Zen.328.75 (iii B.C.), Gauthier et Sottas Decret trilingue (iii B.C.), Call.Fr.1.13 P., OGI90.48 (ii B.C.), UPZ149.21,31 (ii B.C.): esp. in VT and NT, οἱ ἄρτοι τῆς π. the loaves laid before, shew-bread, LXX 1 Ki. 21.6(7), Ev.Matt.12.4; “ἡ π. τῶν ἄρτων” Ep.Hebr.9.2, cf. Ph. 2.294; “ἡ τράπεζα τῆς π.” LXX 2 Ch.29.18.
II. purpose, end proposed, “ἐπαινῶ σὴν π.” SIG22.14（Magn. Mae., Epist. Darei), cf. Philipp. ap.D.18.167, Arist.APr.47a5, Cleanth.Stoic. 1.131, Plb.5.35.2, Arr. Epict.1.21.2, etc.; “π. βίων” Adam.Phgn.1.2; defined as σημείωσις ἐπιτελέσεως, Stoic.3.41; “κατὰ πρόθεσιν” purposely, Plb.12.10.6; “τὰ κατὰ π. φύντα” Ph.2.144; “τὰ κατὰ τὴν π.” Plb.1.54.1, cf. PTeb.27.81 (ii B.C.).
2. goodwill, π. ἔχειν πρὸς ἔθνος, ὑπὲρ τῶν πολιτῶν, Plb. 4.73.2, OGI765.44 (prob. l., Priene).
III. supposition, calculation, Plb.6.32.1, 12.21.6.
IV. Gramm., preposition, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.45, D.T.634.5, D.H.Comp.2, A.D.Synt.305.24, Pron.64.5.
2. prefixing, placing first, Id.Synt.311.1, Pron.58.16.
3. π. καὶ πτῶσις perh.stem (or root) and ending, Phld.Po.2.18.
V. = προθεσμία, interpol. in Suid.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 167
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    • New Testament, Matthew, 12.4
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