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προκάθημαι , Ion. προκαθηγ-κάτημαι , prop. pf. of προκαθέζομαι:—
A.to be seated before, π. τοσοῦτο πρὸ τῆς ἄλλης Ἑλλάδος lie so far in front of Greece, of the Thessalians, Hdt.7.172.
2. c. gen., to be seated or lie before a place, so as to defend it, “ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι π. τῆς θαλάμης” Arist. HA 550b5: hence, generally, protect, defend, τῶν ἑωυτοῦ, Ἰώνων, Hdt.8.36, 9.106, cf. Th.8.76, X.HG5.2.4; “τῆς Ῥώμης” Plb.2.24.15, al.; “αἱ -καθήμεναι θεαὶ τῆς πόλεως” SIG694.50 (Elaea, ii B. C.): rare in Poets, φυλακὴν . . στρατιᾶς π., of sentinels, E.Rh.6 (anap.).
II. preside over, “τὸ προκαθήμενον τῆς πόλεως” Pl.Lg.758d; “τοῦ πλήθους” Arist. Pol.1322b14: metaph., “γεύσεως ὄσφρησις π.” Ph.1.603.
2. abs., sit in public or preside, Plb.5.63.7, etc.; “οἱ π. ἄρχοντες” Id.12.16.6.
b. sit at meals, “καθ᾽ ἡλικίαν καὶ τιμήν” Str.3.3.7.
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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