Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, προ-κοπή

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2. generally, progress, advance, τὴν οἴησιν ἔλεγε προκοπῆς ἐγκοπήν that opinionforming was the stoppage of progress, Bion ap.D.L.4.50; π. σχεῖν, ποιεῖσθαι, λαμβάνειν, Plb.2.37.10, 2.13.1, 8.15.6; “ἡ ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον π.” Id.1.12.7; opp. “ἡ ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον π.” J.AJ4.4.1; freq. of moral progress, Stoic.3.31, al.; παλίντροπος π. progress in a contrary direction, Plb. 5.16.9; “ἐν παιδείᾳ π.” LXX Si.51.17; proficiency, “ἐν τοῖς λόγοις” Phld. Piet.107; “ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ” D.S.16.6, cf. Cic.Att.15.16; “π. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου” Ep.Phil.1.12; “τὸ ἐπιστρέφειν προϊέναι ἐστί, π. γάρ τις, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰτίου” Dam.Pr.77; improvement in health, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.10.8.17: pl., “προκοπὰς λαμβάνειν” Plb.10.47.12, cf. Phld.Rh.2.54 S., Ph.1.83, al., J.BJ2.2.5, Plu.2.75b, Luc.Alex.22; “ἐν προκοπαῖς” Epigr.Gr.321.6, Arch.Pap.1.220 (Egypt), cf. IG14.1976 (Rome); “ἐν μείζοσι προκοπαῖς” PRyl.233.16 (ii A.D.).

b. success, prosperity, δόζα καὶ π. παρά τισιν ὑπάρξει Aristeas 242, cf. OGI627.2 (Bostra), Heph.Astr.1.1.

3. military promotion, J.BJ6.2.6.

4. process, κατὰ προκοπήν by process of time or growth, Sor.1.43.

5. Math., progression of numbers, “μέχρις ἂν εἰς τετράδα ἡ π. ἔλθῃ” Theol.Ar. 21.

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 (14):
- Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 15.16
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 16.6
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 4.4.1
- Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.2.5
- Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 6.2.6
- Polybius, Histories, 10.47.12
- Polybius, Histories, 1.12.7
- Polybius, Histories, 2.13.1
- Polybius, Histories, 2.37.10
- Polybius, Histories, 5.16.9
- Polybius, Histories, 8.15.6
- New Testament, Philippians, 1.12
- Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 51.17
- Lucian, Alexander, 22

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