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προ-στα^σία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.standing in front, κατὰ τὴν τῶν θηρίων π., i.e. opposite the animals which were posted in front, Plb.11.1.3.
II. standing before or at the head of, leadership, “τοῦ δήμου” Th.2.65; “τοῦ πλήθους” Id.6.89: abs., chieftainship, presidency, ἐπ᾽ ἐτησίῳ π. v.l. for προστατείᾳ in Id.2.80; leadership, authority, “οἱ προστασίας ἀξιούμενοι” D.19.295; ἡ ἰατρικὴ π. authority or dignity of a physician, Hp.Praec.10, cf. Medic. 1; “ἡ τοῦ ξυγγραφέως π.” Plb.12.28.6, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.3.43, Plot.3.4.3.
b. governorship, Ph.2.63; = Lat. praefectura, Id.1.675.
c. superintendence, care, charge, “δι᾽ ἣν ποιεῖται ἡμῶν π.” UPZ20.28 (ii B. C.); πρὸ τῆς π., of a midwife, before taking up a charge, Sor.1.4 cod. (nisi leg. πρὸς ταῖς π.）; τοῦ σωματίου π. ποιησαμένη, of a wet-nurse, PSI3.204.8 (i A.D.), cf. PStrassb.40.25 (vi A.D.); management, “εὐθηνίας” PTeb.397.28 (ii A.D.); of a temple, PTheb.Bank 2.6 (ii B.C.); “ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ π. καὶ ὅλου ἡμῶν τοῦ οἴκου” OGI331.22 (Pergam., ii B.C.).
2. outward dignity, pomp, show, etc., “οὐ μόνον π. βασιλική, ἀλλὰ καὶ δύναμις” Plb.4.2.6, cf. 5.43.3, D.S.18.23 (leg. βασιλείων）“; π. τῶν ἱερῶν” Plb.1.55.8.
III. patronage, protection, SIG685.97 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.), IPE12.79.9(Olbia, i A.D.), J.AJ16.2.4, etc.
2. = Lat. patronatus, Plu.Rom.13; = Lat. patrocinium, Lib.Or.47.7 (pl.), al.
3. in bad sense, partisanship, D.10.52 (pl.); collusion, champerty, “ταῦτ᾽ οὐχ ὁμολογουμένη π.;” Id.30.30; προστασίᾳ （-σίαι codd.) “τινὲς ὠνοῦνται καὶ πωλοῦσι” Thphr.Fr.97.3.
IV. place before a building, court (= προστάς, Did. ap. Harp.), “τὰ τῆς Ἀθηναίων Ἀκροπόλεως Προπύλαια μετενεγκεῖν εἰς τὴν προστασίαν τῆς Καδμείας” Aeschin.2.105; “τῆς περὶ τὸ Διονυσιακὸν θέατρον προστασίας” Plb.15.30.4; in this sense oxyt. προστασιά acc. to Hdn.Gr.1.294.
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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