πρό : before, forward,
forth.—I. adv., (κυ?ματα) πρὸ μέν τ᾽ ἄλλ̓, αὐτὰρ
ἐπ̓ ἄλλα, some ‘before,’ others
after, Il. 13.799, cf. 800; πρὸ γὰρ ἧκε, sent
‘forth,’ Il. 1.195
; ?᾿ιλιόθι πρό, οὐρανόθι πρό,
‘before Ilium,’ ‘athwart the
sky’ (at Ilium, in the sky, ‘in front’),
Il. 3.3; of time, ἠῶθι πρό, in the morning ‘early’;
πρό τ᾽ ἐόντα, ‘things
past’; πρό οἱ εἴπομεν,
‘beforehand,’ Il.
1.70, Od. 1.37; a subst. in
the gen. may specify the relation of the adv., πρὸ δ᾽ ἀῤ οὐρῆες κίον αὐτῶν (gen. of comparison),
Il. 23.115.—II. prep. w.
gen., (1) of space, πρὸ πυλα?ων, πρὸ
ἄνακτος, before the gates, in the presence
of the master, Il. 24.734
; πρὸ ὁδοῦ, well forward
on the way, Il. 4.382.—(2)
of time, Od. 15.524, Il. 10.224.—(3) fig., in
behalf of, for;
μάχεσθαι, ὀλέσθαι πρὸ πόληος (pro
patria mori), Il. 22.110; causal,
πρὸ φόβοιο, for, Il. 17.667.
Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1891.
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