A.foresight, forethought, “σοφὸν ἡ προμηθίη” Hdt.3.36, cf. Pi.N.11.46, I.1.40, Th.4.62, al.; “προμηθίαν λαβεῖν” A.Supp.178, cf. E.Hec.795; “πολλὴν προμήθειαν ποιεῖσθαι” Pl.Min.318e; ἐν πολλῇ προμηθίῃ ἔχειν τινά to hold in great consideration, Hdt.1.88; “προμηθείην ἔχειν τινός” Xenoph.1.24, cf. E.Alc.1054, Pl.Grg.501b; “ἔχειν τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς ψυχῆς π.” Id.R.441e: with reference to Prometheus, Luc.Prom.Es1. [προμηθία is required by the metre in S.El.990, OC 332, 1043, Frr.302.2,950.3, E.Med.741, Hec.1137, Ph.1466, Andr. 690, IT1202, and is admissible in A.Supp.178, S.El.1036, 1350, Ph.557, E.Alc.1054, Ion448, whereas προμήθεια is never required.]
προμήθ-εια , Dor. προμηθ-μάθεια [μα_], Ion. προμηθίη , in Trag. προμηθία (v. sub fin.):—
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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