A.“-θύσω” E.Ion805, SIG548.11 (Delph., iii B.C.), Berl.Sitzb.1927.160 (Cyrene), “-θύσομαι” Ar.Th.38:—sacrifice or offer first, “πρὸ πάντων θεῶν τῇ Ἑστίᾳ πρώτῃ” Pl.Cra.401d; “π. καὶ προμαντεύεσθαι” Michel 995 D40 (Delph., iv B.C.); act as προθύτης, SIGl.c.: c. acc., “τὴν θυγατέρα” Plu.2.310d:—more freq. in Med., π. τῷ διὶ τὰ πέμματα take care that they are offered, CIG3599.24 (Assos); “προεθύετο ταῖς Μούσαις ὁ βασιλεύς” Plu.Lyc.21, cf. IG42(1).121.42 (Epid., iv B.C.), 2.1651: metaph., to have a person sacrificed or slaughtered before, J.BJ1.19.3, Luc. Tox.50, Charito 7.3, Hld.9.24.
προθύω , fut.
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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