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προτρέχω , aor.
A.“προὔδρα^μον” Antipho 3.2.8, X.An.1.5.2:—run forward or forth, Il.cc.; “ἀπὸ τοῦ δένδρου δύο βήματα” X.An.4.7.10; [“ἕλμινθες] τῷ στομάχῳ προτρέχουσαι” Herod.Med. ap. Aët.9.37.
II. run in advance of, outrun, “στάδια πέντε τῶν ὁπλιτῶν” X.An.5.2.4; “πολλοῖς ἡ γλῶττα προτρέχει τῆς διανοίας” Isoc.1.41; “π. τὰ κοπριζόμενα τῶν ἀκόπρων” Thphr.HP8.7.7.
III. ἡ προτρέχουσα εἰκασία the foregoing simile, Heraclit.All.5.
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 (5):
    • Antiphon, Second Tetralogy, 2.8
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 41
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.5.2
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.7.10
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.2.4
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