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πρόσταξις , εως, ἡ,
A.posting of additional troops on the wings of a phalanx, Ael.Tact.24.3, Arr.Tact.20.3.
II. ordinance, command, Pl.Lg.631d (pl.), 673c; προστάξεις προστάττοντες ἀνίσους ib.761e; τινὶ τὴν πρόσταξιν ποιεῖσθαι to command him, Arist.Top.103a35, cf. Lys.2.1; “ἐκ προστάξεως τοῦ κυρίου μου κτλ.” POxy.1204.7 (iii A. D.), cf. 1252r.19 (iii A. D.); requisition, “τὴν π. ταῖς πόλεσιν ἑκατὸν νεῶν τῆς ναυπηγίας ἐποιοῦντο” Th.8.3.
III. at Athens, ἄτιμοι κατὰ προστάξεις citizens deprived of their rights in certain specified particulars (opp. παντάπασιν ἄτιμοι), And.1.75.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 75
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 1
    • Plato, Laws, 631d
    • Plato, Laws, 673c
    • Plato, Laws, 761e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.3
    • Arrian, Tactica, 20.3
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