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προκι_ν-έω ,
A.move forward, “τὸ στῖφος” X.Cyr.1.4.21; urge on, “ἵππον” Id.Eq.9.3:—Pass., come on, advance, Id.Cyr.1.4.23; dance before the eyes, of specks, Hp.Loc.Hom.3.
II. excite or begin before, “τὴν μάχην” D.S.17.19 (nisi leg. προκρίνειν).
2. excite or arouse before, “τὴν τοῦ νέου ψυχήν” Plu.2.36d; “τὴν πόλιν” J.BJ4.4.7.
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):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.19
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 4.4.7
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.4.21
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.4.23
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 9.3
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