προφαν-ής, ές,
foreseen, ὁ π. ἔχθιστος φόνων [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 3.51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ π. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1117a21. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II seen clearly or plainly, conspicuous, φῶς τῷ Κύρῳ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ π. γενέσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.15; τὰ προφανέστατα εἴδη 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.18.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 metaphorically, plain, clear, ἡμῖν προφανῆ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 530d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ τοῦ προφανοῦς openly, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.35, 66, 2.93, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τοῦ π. [[ [prev. author] 3.43, 6.73, etc.; ἐκ τοῦ προφανεστάτου 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.39 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]. adverb -νῶς[[ LXX.Sir.51.13, “PTeb.” 25.5 (2nd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.21.9, Lysis Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 17.77, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.643, +others ] LXX+2nd c.BC+]
__II.3 metaphorically, famous, renowned, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.362 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; conspicuous, extraordinary, of a disaster, [[ “IG” 12(8).92.2 (Imbros, 2nd-1st c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: irregular comparative -ώτερος[[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 167 (assuming variant). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III στομάτων προφανέων falsa lectio in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]