A.“προτιμεόντοις” Supp.Epigr.3.416.6 (Elatea, ii B.C.)), honour one before or above another, prefer one to another, τὴν σωτηρίαν τοῦ κέρδους, δίκην πλούτου, Antipho 2.2.5, Pl.Lg.913b, etc.; also “π. ὑὸν ἀντὶ τῶν χρημάτων” Id.Ly.219d; “πρὸ ἀρετῆς κάλλος” Id.Lg.727d; πλέον αὑτῶν ib.777d; βραχυλογίαν μᾶλλον ἢ μῆκος ib.887b.
2. c. acc. only, prefer in honour or esteem, ταῦτα ἐγὼ π. Heraclit. l.c.; “οὐ π. τι” A.Eu.739, etc., cf. Ag.1415; τὴν αὐτονομίαν οὐ π. v.l. in Th.8.64; “π. τὴν ἀλήθειαν” Arist.EN1096a16; “π. τὸν ἄνδρα ἀξίως τῆς ἡμετέρας κρίσεως” OGI244.34 (Daphne, ii B.C.):—Pass., to be so preferred, Th. 6.9, Lys.6.50, OGI754 (Cilicia), etc.; “μᾶλλον προτετίμηται τὸ κάλλος παρ᾽ ἐκείνοις ἢ παρ᾽ ἡμῖν” Isoc.10.60; “προτιμηθῆναι μάλιστα τῶν Ἑλλήνων” X.An.1.6.5; προτιμᾶσθαι ἀποθανεῖν to be selected as a victim to be put to death, Th.1.133; προτιμᾶσθαι ἐς τὰ κοινά to be preferred to public honours, Id.2.37:—Med., “τὸν δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἡμιμναίου προτιμησαίμην” X.Mem.2.5.3: fut. Med. in pass. sense, Id.An.1.4.14.
3. c. inf. folld. by ἤ . . , wish rather, prefer, “προτιμῶντες καθαροὶ εἶναι ἢ εὐπρεπέστεροι” Hdt.2.37: c. inf. only, π. πολλοῦ ἐμοὶ ξεῖνος γενέσθαι valuing at a great price the privilege of becoming my friend, Id.3.21: c. acc. et inf., τὸν ἂν ἐγὼ πᾶσι τυράννοισι προετίμησα μεγάλων χρημάτων ἐς λόγους ἐλθεῖν the man for whom I should have wished, though it might cost me much money, the opportunity to address all princes, Id.1.86.
II. take heed of, reck of, with neg., “μὴ προτιμήσῃς ὑλαγμάτων” A.Ag.1672 (troch.); “τῶν ἐν Ἀδμήτου κακῶν οὐδὲν προτιμῶν” E.Alc.762; “οὐδὲν προτιμῶ σου” Ar.Pl.883, cf. D.7.16: c. part., “χὠπότερον ἂν νῷν ἴδῃς . . -ήσαντά τι τυπτόμενον” Ar.Ra.638, cf. 655: c. inf., care to do or be, “ζῆν . . κακῶς κλύουσαν οὐκ ἀνασχετὸν ἥτις π. μὴ κακὴ πεφυκέναι” S.Tr.722; “οὐδὲν π. μηχανήσασθαι τέκνοις” E.Med. 343: with “ὅπως, εἰρήνη δ᾽ ὅπως ἔσται προτιμῶσ᾽ οὐδέν” Ar.Ach. 27.
