A.show by example, by doing something first, “προδέξαντες σχῆμα, οἷόν τι ἔμελλε εὐπρεπέστατον φανέεσθαι ἔχουσα” Hdt.1.60; τὸν ζωστῆρα προδέξας having shown [the way of] the girdle, Id.4.10.
II. foreshow what is about to happen, “πάντα τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα” Hdt.1.209; “Ἕλλησι π. ὁ θεὸς ἔκλειψιν τῶν πολίων” Id.7.37, cf. 6.27; “προφαίνει καρπὸν . . μέχρι τοῦ προδεῖξαι μόνον” Thphr.CP1.13.10: c. acc. et inf., make known beforehand that . . , Th.3.47; “π. ὅτι . .” Plu.Phoc.28; προδεδειγμένου it having been already shown, A.D Synt. 336.16.
III. point before one, σκήπτρῳ π. γαῖαν, of a blind man, S.OT456; π. τὸ τόξον put it out before one, Luc.Herc.1, cf.Herm.68; π. δελεάσματα hold out baits, Them.Or.22.271c; π. χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς ib.7.91c.
2. as a technical term of pugilists, χερσὶ π. make feints with the hands, Theoc.22.102; also in war, X.Eq.Mag.8.24; “π. τινὰς ἐπιβολάς” Plb.2.66.2; of the cuttle-fish, “π. εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν” Arist. HA621b34.