STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: πρό

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before

πρό,

before, forth:

__A PREP. WITH GENIT.:

__A.I of Place, before, in front of, ἠγερέθοντο π. ἄστεος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.468, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.351, etc.; π. πτόλιος δεδαϊγμένον 19.292; κείνους κιχησόμεθα π. πυλάων 10.126, compare 6.80, etc.; φύλοπις αἰνὴ ἕστηκε π. νεῶν 18.172; πυρὰ φαίνετο Ἰλιόθι π. 8.561, compare 10.12, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.581, etc.; κλαγγὴ γεράνων πέλει οὐρανόθι π. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.3; π. τειχέων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.56 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔμπροσθε π. (variant) τῆς ἀκροπόλιος, ὄπισθε δὲ τῶν πυλέων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.53, compare 9.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. δόμων, π. δωμάτων, in front of, i.e. outside the house, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.18, 5.96, etc.; π. θυρῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 109 (_anapaest meter_), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν π. τοῦ Ἡραίου νῆσον before or off the Heraeum, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.75, compare 7.22; π. ποδός, see at {πούς} 1.4a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. χειρῶν at hand, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1279, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 274, uncertain in “Tr.” 1207; π. τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν προφαίνεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.148. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__A.I.2 with Vbs. of motion, π. δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ αὐτῶν κύνες ἤϊσαν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.435, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.115; π. Ἀχαιῶν ἄγγελος ᾔει 10.286, compare 13.693; π. ἕθεν κλονέοντα φάλαγγας 5.96. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

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__A.II of Time, before, π. γάμοιο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.524; ἠῶθι π. 5.469 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ὃ τοῦ ἐνόησεν one before the other, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.224 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; more frequently in later writers, π. τῶν Τρωικῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, compare 1.1; π. τοῦ θανεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 883; π. τοῦ θανάτου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 57a; π. τοῦ λοιμοῦ [prev. author] “Smp.” 201d; π. δείπνου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.39; π. ἡμέρας [prev. work] 4.5.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τοῦ χρῆσθαι before one uses it, [[ [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.6.6 ] Refs]; π. μοίρας τῆς ἐμῆς before my doom, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1266; π. τῆς εἱμαρμένης 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.21; π. τοῦ καθήκοντος χρόνου 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.126 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], compare 124; π. πολλοῦ long before, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.130, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. μικροῦ, π. ὀλίγου, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 73, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 2.116; ὀλίγον π. τούτων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.8; τὸ π. τοῦ (variant{τούτου}) [prev. work] 15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τοῦ (sometimes written προτοῦ) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1204, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.122, 5.83, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 418, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 173a; ὁ π. τοῦ χρόνος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 462, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.58, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τοῦ ἤ, ={πρὶν ἤ}, [[ “IG” 7.2225.22 (from Thisbe)] Refs]; οἱ π. ἡμῶν γενόμενοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 13.19; οἱ π. ἐμοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.97. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__A.III.1 of Preference, before, rather than, κέρδος αἰνῆσαι π. δίκας to praise sleight before right, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.140, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 361e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πᾶν δὴ βουλόμενοι σφίσι εἶναι π. τῆς παρεούσης λύπης anything before, rather than, their actual trouble, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.152 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (so, in order to avoid, π. τοῦ δεινοτάτου [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.19); πᾶν π. τοῦ δουλεῦσαι ἐπεξελθεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.100, compare 4.59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἑλέσθαι, αἱρεῖσθαι, or κρῖναί τι π. τινός to choose one before another, [[ [prev. author] 5.36, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 366b, “Phlb.” 57e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πολλοῦ ποιήσασθαι to esteem above much, i.e. very highly, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.138; π. πολλῶν χρημάτων τιμήσασθαί τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.33, compare 6.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἄλλων more than others, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 249e (variant), compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1002; δυσδαίμων.. π. πασᾶν γυναικῶν [prev. work] 927 (codices, Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πάντων θεῶν τῇ Ἑστίᾳ πρώτῃ προθύειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 401d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: after a comparative it is redundant, ἡ τυραννὶς π. ἐλευθερίης ἀσπαστότερον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62, compare 6.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 28d, “Cri.” 54b, “Phd.” 99a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; for ἤ after ἄλλος, οὐδεὶς ἄλλος π. σεῦ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85, compare 7.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]