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πρωτεύω , (πρῶτος)
A.to be the first, hold first place, And.4.41 (s.v.l.), Pl.Lg.692d, Arist.EN1124b23; οἱ πρωτεύοντες the primates or chief men in a city, Hdn.8.7.2, cf. Isoc.5.68; hold position of πρῶτος (q.v.), MAMA4.151 (Apollonia); “π. τοῦ ἔθνους” OGI563.6 (Cadyanda).
II. with a modal word added, to be first in a thing, “καρτερίᾳ” X.Ages.10.1; “βδελυρίᾳ” Aeschin.1.192; “γένει” Is.1.21; “ἐν ἕδρᾳ” X.Cyr.8.4.5; “περὶ κακίαν” Aeschin.2.159; “φιλίᾳ π. παρὰ τῷ Κύρῳ” X.Cyr.8.2.28, cf. Isoc.3.60; ἐν τούτοις (sc. ἐπιτηδεύμασιν) Id.7.48.
2. c. gen. pers., to be first of or among, Ἑλλήνων ib.6; “τῶν ῥητόρων” Aeschin.1.171, cf. X.Ages.1.3; “π. Ἑλλάδος εἰς ἀρετήν” Epigr.Gr.489: also “π. ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι” Isoc.8.24; “ἐν τῷ δήμῳ” D.19.297.
III. = προτερέω, excel, “π. τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ταῖς κυνηγεσίαις” D.S.4.81.
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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