πρόμᾰχ-ος, ον,
fighting before or in front: πρόμαχοι, οἱ, champions, ἐν προμάχοισι φανέντα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.31; πρώτοισιν ἐνὶ π. μιγέντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.379, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.354; προμάχων ἀν᾽ ὅμιλον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 7(6).35. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__b as adjective, π. δόρυ the champion spear, i.e. of Heracles (see. [[ Scholia), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 856 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 fighting for, δόλεως, δόμων, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 419 (Lyric poetry), 482 (Lyric poetry); θεσμῶν “IG” 3.638. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as a name of tutelary gods, Ἀθηνᾶ [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.51, etc.] Refs 4th c.AD+]; παρὰ προμάχῳ Παλλάδι [[ “IG” [same place]; Ἠρακλῆς 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.11.4; Ἐρμῆς [prev. author] 9.22.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III substantive, bastion, [[ 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Aedificiis” 5.4. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__IV in Crete, cake made for a seven-days-old child, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus προμαχ-ών, later form of προμαχεών, LXX.Jer.5.10, +others, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 91.50, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.4.2, etc. ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]