ἔμπροσθ-εν,
sometimes also ἔμπροσθε [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.62, 7.144, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 4.10, in Poets for the sake of meter, 3rd c.BC: Hegesippus Comicus 1.20, 3rd c.BC: Nicomachus Comicus 1.14, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.590: neither form in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus or Trag., τοὔμπροσθεν uncertain in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1228 ] Refs 8th c.BC+].
__I adverb,
__I.1 of Place, before, in front, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.126, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ and τὰ ἔ. the front, the foreside, [[ [prev. author] “HG” 2.3.55, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.62, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς τὸ ἔ. forwards, [[ [prev. author] 4.61 ] Refs]; στὰς ἐκ τοῦ ἔ. in front, opposite, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.6: _metaphorically_, εἰστοὔμπ. προελθεῖν Isoc. [prev. cited] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of Time, before, of old, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 277d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἔ. [[ [prev. author] “Grg.” 448e; τὰ ἔ. τούτων ῥηθέντα [prev. author] “Lg.” 773e ] Refs]; οἱ ἔ. our ancestors, [[ [prev. author] “Plt.” 296a, Hegesippus Epigrammaticus [same place]; οἱ ἔ. Χρόνοι “PPetr.” 2p.19 (3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II as preposition with genitive, before, in front of,
__II.1 of Place, ἐ. αὐτῆς (i.e. τῆς νηός) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.87, compare 2.110, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]