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προλέγω ,
A.pick out, choose, prefer, “Ἀθηναίων προλελεγμένοι” Il.13.689; “ἐξοχώτατοι προλέγονται” Pi.N.2.18; “ἀριστῆες πασᾶν ἐκ πολίων προλελεγμένοι” Theoc.13.18.
II. foretell, Aeol. aor. part. “προλέξαις” Alc.Supp.22.7; predict, of an oracle, Hdt.1.53, 8.136; “μέμνησθ᾽ ἁγὼ προλέγω” A.Pr.1071 (anap.), cf. S.OT973; π. πρόρρησιν, of a physician, v.l. in Hp.Prog.15; “τὰ μέλλοντα” Pl.Euthphr.3c, cf. D. 19.298.
b. say beforehand, “ταῦτα, ὅτι . .” Pl.R.337a, cf. Euthd. 275e, Hyp.Lyc.7; ὡς προλέλεκται as was said above, Demetr.Eloc. 89; ὁ προλεχθείς the aforesaid,PMasp.32.63 (vi A. D.), al.
c. προλεγόμεναι (sc. θέσεις) first principles, Cic.Fam.9.18.3.
d. μακρὰ προλεγομένγ a long syllable placed, uttered first, Demetr.Eloc.39.
2. state publicly, proclaim, “προὔλεγον τὸ ψήφισμα καθελοῦσι μὴ ἂν γίγνεσθαι πόλεμον” Th.1.139; “προλεγέτω ἁ ἀρχά” Foed.Delph.Pell.1A5, cf. OGI437.76 (Pergam., i B.C.): c. acc. et inf., A.Th.336(lyr.), etc.: c. acc., “ὁ νόμος πέφυκε προλέγειν ἃ μὴ δεῖ πράττειν” Lycurg.4; “πολέμους ἀλλήλοις” Plb.13.3.5.
3. π. τινὶ ἀπιέναι order him to . . , X.An. 7.7.3, cf. Din.1.71; caution, warn, “π. τινὶ μὴ φεύγειν” E.Fr.897.9 (anap.); “π. τινί, εἰ θεραπεύσοιτο, ὅτι διαφθαρήσοιτο” Antipho 4.2.4; “ὡς οὐ . .” Plb.5.57.2.
4. denounce punishment, “π. δεσμόν τινι” D. 24.60.
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 (20):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.18.3
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1071
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 336
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 2.4
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 298
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 60
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.136
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.53
    • Hyperides, Against Philippides, 7
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 4
    • Plato, Republic, 337a
    • Plato, Euthyphro, 3c
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 275e
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 973
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.7.3
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.689
    • Polybius, Histories, 13.3.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.57.2
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 15
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.139
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