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prŏoemĭum , ii, n., = προοίμιον.
I. An introduction, preface, proem (class.; syn.: exordium, principium): quod principium Latine vel exordium dicitur, majore quădam ratione Graeci videntur προοίμιον nominasse: “quia a nostris initium modo significatur, illi satis clare partem hanc esse ante ingressum rei, de quă dicendum sit, ostendunt ..certe prooemium est, quod apud judicem, priusquam causam cognoverit, prosit,Quint. 4, 1, 1; cf. id. 4, 1, 53; 2, 13, 1; 3, 9, 1; “3, 11, 28 et saep.: citharoedi prooemium,prelude, Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 325: “longo et alte petito prooemio respondere,id. Clu. 21, 58' volumen prooemiorum . .prooemio abuti prooemium exarare, desecare, agglutinare, id. Att. 16, 6, 4: “legis prooemium,id. Leg. 2, 7, 16.—
II. Transf., in gen., a beginning (poet.): rixae, Juv 3, 288.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 16.6.4
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 21.58
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.80
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 2.7
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 13.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 9.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, 1.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, 1.53
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