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προοιμι-άζομαι , pf.
A.“πεπροοιμίασμαι” Luc.Nigr.10:—in Trag. contr. φροιμιάζομαι : both forms occur in Arist. and later Prose: aor. “ἐφροιμιασάμην” Arist.Po.1460a10: pf. πεφροιμίασμαι in pass. sense (v. infr.):—make a prelude, preamble, or preface, A.Ag.1354, X.Mem. 4.2.5, Pl.Lg.723c; “π. μακρῶς” Arist.Rh.1416b33, cf. 1415b24, Phld. Rh.1.56S., al.
II. c.acc., say by way of preface, premise, “τί φροιμιάζῃ νεοχμόν;” E.IT1162; “περὶ οὗ τοσαῦτα προοιμιάζομαι” Pl.La.179a, cf. Thphr.Char.Praef.4; τούτους . . φροιμιάζομαι θεούς begin by invoking them, A.Eu.20: c.dat.modi, “δάκρυσι” Them.Or.13.173d: pf. in pass. sense, “πεφροιμίασται τὰ νῦν εἰρημένα” Arist.Pol.1325b33; ταῦτα ἔστω πεφροιμιασμένα τῷ λόγῳ ib.1323b37; “πεφροιμιάσθω ταῦτα” Id.EN 1095a12; “ἐν τοῖς πεφροιμιασμένοις” Id.Metaph.995b5.
2. begin, “ἐντεῦθεν” Them.Or.9.120c: metaph., inaugurate, “τὴν βασιλείαν τρισχιλίων πολιτῶν φόνῳ” J.BJ2.6.2, cf. D.S.36.2.
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 20
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1460a.10
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1162
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.6.2
    • Plato, Laws, 723c
    • Plato, Laches, 179a
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.2.5
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1354
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