προήκω,
to have gone before, be the first, ἀξιώσει [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.34; χρήμασι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.23; χρόνῳ τῶν ἄλλων 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.1; τοῖς χρόνοις [prev. work] 1.204. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 to have advanced, π. ἐς βαθὺ τῆς ἡλικίας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 513; τὴν ἡλικίαν LXX.4Mac.5.4; ἡλικίᾳ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 58.27; καθ᾽ ἡλικίαν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 13; also, ἔχειν ἡλικίαν πλέον προήκουσαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1336b18 (assuming variant)] LXX+5th c.BC+]; [ὁρῶ] τὰ πράγματ᾽ εἰς τοῦτο προήκοντα have come to this pass, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of Time, τῆς ἡμέρας προηκούσης [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 15 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; also ἐπὶ προηκούσῃ τῇ πραγματείᾳ as my work proceeds, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.573. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II to have come forth, τοῦ δωματίου [[ 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.2. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__III reach beyond, τῆς ἄρκυος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; extend in length, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.228. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]