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προήκω ,
A.to have gone before, be the first, “ἀξιώσει” Th.2.34; “χρήμασι” X.HG7.1.23; “χρόνῳ τῶν ἄλλων” S.E.M.9.1; τοῖς χρόνοις ib.1.204.
2. to have advanced, “π. ἐς βαθὺ τῆς ἡλικίας” Ar.Nu.513; “τὴν ἡλικίαν” LXX 4 Ma.5.4; “ἡλικίᾳ” D.C.58.27; “καθ᾽ ἡλικίαν” Plu.Alc.13; also, “ἔχειν ἡλικίαν πλέον προήκουσαν” Arist.Pol.1336b18(s.v.l.); [ὁρῶ] τὰ πράγματ᾽ εἰς τοῦτο προήκοντα have come to this pass, D.3.1; of Time, “τῆς ἡμέρας προηκούσης” Plu.Brut.15; also ἐπὶ προηκούσῃ τῇ πραγματείᾳ as my work proceeds, Gal.2.573.
II. to have come forth, “τοῦ δωματίου” Hld.5.2.
III. reach beyond, “τῆς ἄρκυος” X.Cyn.10.7; extend in length, Gal.5.228.
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, Olynthiac 3, 1
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.34
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    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.7
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 513
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