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προπέμπω , aor. προέπεμψα, contr. προὔπεμψα,
A.send before, send forward or forth, “πρό μ᾽ ἔπεμψεν ἄναξ” Il.1.442; “εὖτέ μιν εἰς Ἀΐδαο . . προὔπεμψεν” 8.367, cf. Od.17.54, 117, 24.360; “π. κήρυκας” Hdt.1.60, cf. 4.33 (Pass.), 121, Th.1.29, S.El.1158, etc.; “π. πρὸ τοῦ στρατεύματος ἄνδρας” X.Cyr.2.4.23:—Med., ib.5.3.53, An.7.2.14:—Pass., impers., “προπέπεμπται” Th.7.77.
b. with a thing for the object, “τινὶ φήμας π.” S.El.1155; “ξίφος” afford, furnish, Id.Ph.1205 (lyr.); “π. ἄχη” cause, Id.Ant.1287 (lyr.).
2. of things, send forth, “σποδὸς π. πίονας πλούτου πνοάς” A.Ag.820; “ἰοὺς ἀφύκτους καὶ προπέμποντας φόνον” S.Ph. 105.
II. conduct, escort, esp. a departing traveller, Hdt.1.111,3.50, S.OC1667, Antipho1.16, Thphr. Char.5.2, etc.; “τινὰ ἐς δόμους” A.Pers. 530; “νύμφην π.” X.HG4.1.9, etc.; π. τινὰ χθονός from the land, E. Hipp.1099; “π. τινὰ μέλεσιν καὶ μολπαῖσιν” Ar.Ra.1525 (anap.); “π. τινὰ τοῖς ἵπποις” X.An.7.2.8; “τοῖς προπέμπουσι καμήλοις Πολύκαρπον” PFlor. 206.2 (iii A. D.); esp. follow a corpse to the grave, “τινὰ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ” A. Th.1064 (anap.); “Καρικῇ μούσῃ τοὺς τελευτήσαντας” Pl.Lg.800e; τιμὰς π. θεοῖς carry offerings in procession, A.Pers.622: jocosely, τὸν ἕνα ψωμὸν ἑνὶ ὄψῳ π. let one piece of bread be attended by one condiment, X.Mem.3.14.6:—Pass., Isoc.4.148; of a funeral procession, “-πεμφθέντες κοινῇ ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως” Pl.Mx.236d; πανδημεὶ προπεμπομένους ἐπὶ θάνατον, of the Minotaur's victims, Isoc.10.27; “ὑπὸ ποιητικῆς ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν” Plu.2.37b.
2. pursue, X.HG7.2.13.
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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