A.a, ranged in rows or ranks, of ships on a narrow beach, Il.14.35; “πρόκροσσαι ὅρμεον τὸ ἐς πόντον καὶ ἐπὶ ὀκτὼ νέας” Hdt.7.188; πέριξ αὐτὸ (sc. τὸ χαλκήϊον）“ γρυπῶν κεφαλαὶ πρόκροσσοί εἰσι” Id.4.152; συνδέσεις οὐ περιφερεῖς, ἀλλὰ πρόκροσσαι not round, but ranged in ranks, Democr. ap. Thphr.Sens.79, cf. Opp.H. 4.606: metaph., πρόκροσσοι φερόμενοι ἐπὶ τὸν κίνδυνον rushing in serried ranks into danger, Agathocl.4.
πρόκροσσοι , αι, α, or οι,
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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