A.looking for, expectation, whether in hope or fear, but more commonly fear,
1. c. gen., μέλλοντος κακοῦ, δεινῶν, Pl.La.198b, Ti.70c; “π. τοῦ μέλλοντος” Arist.PA669a21; “τὸν φόβον ὁρίζονται π. κακοῦ” Id.EN1115a9: in good sense, “π. ἀγαθῶν ἐμβάλλειν” X.Cyr.1.6.19 (pl.); τῆς ἀσφαλείας ἔχειν π. D.18.281; “π. μεγάλην ἔχειν ὡς εὖ ἐροῦντος ἐμοῦ” Pl.Smp.194a; τὰς τῶν ἔργων προσδοκίας ἀπαιτεῖν τινα, i.e. the fulfilment of the expectations raised, Aeschin.2.178.
3. folld. by a conjunction, προσδοκία οὐδεμία (sc. ἦν）“ μὴ ἐπιπλεύσειαν” Th.2.93; “π. οὔσης μή τι νεωτερίσωσιν” Id.5.14; “προσδοκίαν παρέχειν ὡς . . ” Id.7.12; “π. ἐμποιεῖν ὡς . . ” Isoc.8.6.
4. with Preps., πρὸς προσδοκίαν according to expectation, Th.6.63; κατὰ τὴν π. Pl.Sph.264b; opp. παρὰ προσδοκίαν, which is used of a kind of joke freq. in Com., e.g. ἔχειν ὑπὸ ποσσὶ—χίμεθλα (where πέδιλα was expected), Demetr.Eloc.152, Hermog.Meth.34, Tib. Fig.16: generally, “τὸ παρὰ π. ἐξαπίναιον” Phld.Herc.1251.19.
