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προαπο-θνήσκω ,
A.die before or first, Hdt.2.1, App. Mith.117; π. τῆς γηραιοῦ τελευτῆς die before old age, Antipho 4.1.2; of a coward, π. ὑπὸ τοῦ φόβου, i.e. before his time, X.Cyr.3.1.25; “π. τῷ δέει” Ph.2.68; “π. πρὶν ἐντὸς βέλους γενέσθαι” Luc.Anach.25.
II. die on behalf or in defence of, “ὑπὲρ τῆς βασιλείας” Pl.Smp.208d; “τῶν τέκνων” Arist.EE1235a34; “κύνες π. τῶν δεσποτῶν” Ph.2.200.
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 (5):
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 1.2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.1
    • Plato, Symposium, 208d
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.1.25
    • Lucian, Anacharsis, 25
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