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προδίδωμι ,
A.give beforehand, pay in advance, X.HG1.5.7, IG22.1304.34; προεδίδου cj. for προσ- in Plb.8.15.7; προδιδούς, opp. ἐπιδιδούς, Gal.12.174; give first, Ep.Rom.11.35:—Pass., Arist.Oec.1350a36; “τῶν -δεδομένων τιμῶν” Inscr.Prien.107.17, cf. GDI5181.34（Crete); of a menu-tablet, Ath.2.49d.
II. give up, [κλῆρον] PPetr.3p.96(iii B.C.); deliver up, “τοὺς ὁμοκωμήτας ἡμῖν” PThead.17.16(iv A.D.): most freq., give up to the enemy, betray, “τοὺς λοιποὺς τοῖσι Σαμίοισι” Hdt.6.23; “τὸ σὸν θνητοῖσι π. γέρας” A.Pr.38, etc.; “π. τὴν Ποτείδαιαν” Hdt.8.128; “τὰν φυγάδα” A.Supp.420(lyr.); “ἱκέτας” E.Heracl.246; “πυργώματα” A.Th.251; τὰς πύλας, φρούριον, Ar.Av.766, Ra.362; of a woman, “π. τὸ σῶμα” Lys.Fr.90: c. inf., “ὃν σὺ προὔδωκας θανεῖν” E.Or.1588, cf. Alc.659:—Pass., “προδοθέντες ὑπὸ Σιτάλκεω ἥλωσαν” Hdt.7.137; “ἀπόλωλα τλήμων, προδέδομαι” S.Ph.923.
2. forsake, abandon, “οἵ με φίλοι προὔδωκαν” Thgn.813; “π. τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Hdt.9.7.β́, Ar.Pax408; “μηδαμῶς . . προδῷς με” Id.Th.229; “τὴν μητέρα π.” Antipho 1.5; “τὴν πολιτείαν” Pl.Lg.762c; “σαυτόν” Id.Cri.45c:—Pass., “προδεδόμεθα ὑπὸ τῶν συμμάχων” Hdt.9.60, cf. Vett.Val.78.19.
3. abs., play false, desert, Hdt.5.113, 6.15, etc.; οὔτοι προδώσει χρησμός will not prove traitor, A.Ch.269; “χάρις . . προδοῦσ᾽ ἁλίσκεται” S.Aj.1267; ἢν προδιδῶσι πρὸς τοὺς κατιόντας treat treasonably with them, Hdt.3.45: c. acc. cogn., “προδοσίαν π.” to be guilty of treachery, Din.1.10.
4. with a thing as subject, betray, fail one, [“αἱ κάτω πλίνθοι] π. τὰς ἄνω” X.HG5.2.5; “ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς π. τινά” D.52.13: intr.,fail, of wine, Xenoph. 1.5; of a river, run dry, Hdt.7.187; of a barricade that has proved useless, Id.8.52.
5. with a thing as object, surrender, give up, “προδέδοται τὰ κρυπτά” E.IA1140; χάριν π. to be thankless, Id.Heracl. 1036; “τὰ πράγματα” Ar.Eq.241; “τὸ δοκοῦν ἀληθὲς οὐχ ὅσιον προδιδόναι” Pl.R.607c; “τὸ δίκαιον” Id.Lg.907a; ἑτέροισι τὴν νίκην ib.906e; “καιρὸν τοῖς ἐναντίοις” D.19.6; to be false to, fail to uphold, “ὅρκους” X.Cyr.5.1.22; “τὴν καταχειροτονίαν” D.21.120; give up as lost, bid adieu to, “ἡδονάς” S.Ant.1166; “τὰς ἐλπίδας” Ar.Nu.1500; “τὴν ἐκείνου προαίρεσιν” D. 60.28; “τὸν ἀγῶνα” Aeschin.1.115.
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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