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προφαν-ής , ές,
A.foreseen, “ὁ π. ἔχθιστος φόνων” B.3.51; τὰ π. Arist.EN1117a21.
II. seen clearly or plainly, conspicuous, “φῶς τῷ Κύρῳ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ π. γενέσθαι” X.Cyr.4.2.15; “τὰ προφανέστατα εἴδη” Thphr.HP3.18.8.
2. metaph., plain, clear, “ἡμῖν προφανῆ” Pl.R.530d; ἀπὸ τοῦ προφανοῦς openly, Th.1.35,66, 2.93, etc.; ἐκ τοῦ π. Id.3.43,6.73, etc.; “ἐκ τοῦ προφανεστάτου” D.S.12.39. Adv. “-νῶς” LXX Si.51.13, PTeb.25.5 (ii B.C.), Plb.1.21.9, Lysis ap. Iamb. VP17.77, Gal.1.643, al.
3. metaph., famous, renowned, Man.2.362; conspicuous, extraordinary, of a disaster, IG12(8).92.2 (Imbros, ii/i B.C.): irreg. Comp. “-ώτερος” Ptol.Tetr.167 (s.v.l.).
III. στομάτων προφανέων f.l. in Hp.Mul. 1.17.
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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    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 3.51
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.39
    • Plato, Republic, 530d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.43
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.73
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.2.15
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.21.9
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 51.13
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.35
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.93
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 167
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