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προνο-ητικός , ή, όν,
A.provident, cautious, wary, X.Mem.1.3.9, Men.Epit.344; “τὸ πόρρωθεν π.” M.Ant.1.16: Comp. “-ώτερος” Procop.Arc.19. Adv. “-κῶς” X.Mem.1.4.6, Aen.Tact.18.11, Ph.1.500, Sor.1.14; “π. ἔχειν” Aristid.1.377 J.; “π. ἔχειν τινός” J.AJ11.5.8: Sup. “-ώτατα” most wisely, A.D.Pron.104.13.
2. taking thought or care for, esp. of divine providence, “θεὸς π. κόσμου” D.L.7.147, cf. Str.10.3.23, Ph.2.242; “φύσις π. τοῦ ζῴου” Gal.11.158: abs., “ἔχειν π. δύναμιν περὶ τὸν αὑτῶν βίον” Arist.EN1141a28, cf. Ph.2.546, Plu.2.1052b, Procl.Inst.120: Comp. “-ώτερος” Chio Ep.15.2.
II. of things, showing forethought or design, X.Mem.4.3.6.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 11.5.8
    • Strabo, Geography, 10.3.23
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.3.9
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.4.6
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.3.6
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 1.16
    • Procopius, Historia Arcana (Anecdota), 19
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