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προμηθ-εύς , έως, Ion. έος, ὁ, Dor. Προμα_θεύς ,
A.Prometheus, opp. Ἐπιμηθεύς (Forethought and Afterthought), Hes. Th.510, cf. A.Pr.85, Pl.Prt.320d, PHib.1.27.85 (iii B.C.), etc.; Προμαθέος Αἰδὼς [θυγάτηρ] Pi.O.7.44; = Summanus, Gloss.: pl. Προμηθεῖς, οἱ, of workers in clay, Luc.Prom.Es2.
II. as Appellat., “αὐτὸν γάρ σε δεῖ προμηθέως” A.Pr.86: as Adj., προμα_θεὺς ἀρχά provident rule (prob. προμα_θίς), Id.Supp.700 (lyr.).
III. Pythag. name for unity, Theol.Ar.5: for nine, ib.57.
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 85
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 86
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 700
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 510
    • Plato, Protagoras, 320d
    • Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis, 2
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