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προάγω [ᾰ],
future -άξω: perfect active προῆχα [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.18, 25.8, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.11.10:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —middle, see below: perfect passive in middle sense, see below [[ 1.7 ] Refs]:—lead forward or onward, μιν ἐς τὰ οἰκία [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.148, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; escort on their way, [[ [prev. author] 8.132; τοὺς πεζοὺς οὐ πολλὴν ὁδόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be led on, προαγομένης τῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ συμφοράς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 carry on, αἱμασιάν [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 55.27 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; produce, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.7.6:] Refs 3rd c.AD+] —passive, [τάξις] εἰς ὀξὺ προηγμένη brought to a point, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 16.8. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2.b bring on in age, etc., προῆγεν αὐτὸν ὁ χρόνος εἰς ὥραν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.4:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, ἐπὶ πλείω προῆκται τῆς κατ᾽ ἰητρικὴν ἐπιμελείας belong to more advanced medical study, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἰητροῦ” 13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.c increase, raise a dose, ἐπὶ ἓξ κοτύλας [[ 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “fragment” 68 (variant{προσ-}). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 bring forward, νεκρόν εἰς τὸ φανερόν, τι εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 960a, “Plt.” 262c; τὴν φύσιν εἰς φῶς πᾶσιν [prev. author] “Ep.” 341d; βουλὴν ἀπόρρητον εἰς φῶς ἡλίου 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.552d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ προαγαγόντες εἰς φῶς, ={οἱ γονεῖς}, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.8, compare 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 7.23 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; call up an apparition, Thessal. in [[ “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(3).137. ] Refs]
Close Browse lexicon entries __3.b bring before a tribunal, [[ “SIG” 826 G 22 (2nd c.BC, _passive_)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; π. δάνειον [[ “POxy.” 1562.14 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__4 lead on, induce, persuade, δόλῳτινὰς π. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.90; ὡς ἡχρεία προάγει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.59: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive added, κινδυνεύειν τινὰ π.[[ [prev. work] 45; ἐγὼ προήγαγον ὑμᾶς ἄξια τῶν προγόνων φρονεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.206: with Preps., π. θυμὸν ἐς ἀμπλακίην 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 386 (nisi to be read παράγει); τινὰς ἐς λόγους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 22a; εἰς μῖσος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.2 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τὰς συγγενείας εἰς ἔχθραν, εἰς ἄνοιαν τὴν πόλιν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.174, 8.121; εἰς ὀργὴν ἢ φθόνον ἢ ἔλεον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1354a25; εἰς γέλωτα [prev. work] 1415a37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινὰ ἐπ᾽ ἀρετήν, opposed to προτρέψασθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.1; πάντας ἐκ.. πολέμων ἐπὶ τὴν ὁμόνοιαν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.141; πρὸς.. κακίας ὑπερβολήν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.36; ἐμαυτὸν εἰς ἀπέχθειαν [prev. author] 23.1:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, ἐς γέλωτα προαγαγέσθαι τινά move one to laughter, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. δ; τὴν ὑγρότητα αὐτῶν τοῦ ἤθους εἰς ἔλεον 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 33; προαξόμεθ᾽.. εἰς ἀνάγκην 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: c.infinitive, τοῦτο πολεμίους προάγεται ἁμαρτάνειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 5.15, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.117, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1270b2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—frequently in passive, προαχθέντας εἰς φιλοποσίαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.22; εἰς τοῦτ᾽ ὀργῆς προήχθησαν ὥστε.. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 20.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγε προαχθείην ἂν εἰπεῖν [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.79, compare 18.269, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 194a31; προάγεται λαλεῖν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 164; πολλὰ προηγμένον πρᾶξαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.23, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 carry forward, advance, π. τὴν πόλιν lead it on to power, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.18, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. αὐτὴν (i.e. τὴν ἀρχὴν) ἐς τόδε [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.75, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1274a10; λόγοισι προάγει.., ἔργοισι δ᾽ οὐδὲ κινεῖ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 300 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὕτω μέχρι πόρρω προήγαγον [τὴν ἔχθραν] carried it so far, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.163; π. [τὰ πράγματα] ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον [prev. author] “Prooem.” 38, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν πραγματείαν π. εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν promote the study, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Fragmenta Historica” 81 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; [τὰ μαθήματα] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 985b24; τὰς τέχνας [prev. author] “SE” 183b29, compare “Po.” 1449a13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. καὶ διαρθρῶσαι τὰ καλῶς ἔχοντα τῇ περιγραφῇ carry on and complete.., [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1098a22, compare “Pol.” 1282b35 ] Refs]:—middle, ἐς τοῦτο [τὰ Περσέων πρήγματα] προηγάγοντο [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, increase, become rife, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.266. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5.b of persons, promote or prefer to honour, δᾶμος εἰς ἀριστοκρατίαν ἄνδρας αἰ προάγοι καλῶς [[ 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 3, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.13.6, etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τινὰς εἰς δόξαν, ἐφ᾽ ἡγεμονίας, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 7, “Galb.” 20, etc.; ἐπὶ μέγα προαχθῆναι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 55. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__5.c prefer in the way of choice, especially in passive, αἱ προηγμέναι φυλαί [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 4.8.44: προηγμένος] Refs 1st c.AD+] distinguished, outstanding, ὥρα [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista Jun. “Im.Praef.” ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__6 in Stoic Philos., of things neither good nor bad but promoted or advanced above the zero point of indifference, προηγμένον.. ὃ ἀδιάφορον [ὂν] ἐκλεγόμεθα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.48, compare 1st c.BC(?): Aristo Epigrammaticus [prev. work] 83, Chrysipp.[prev. work] 3.28, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare ἀποπροάγω.
__7 in perfect passive with middle sense, οὕτω προῆκται τοὺς παῖδας ὥστε.. has had them brought up in such a way that.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: also in passive sense, ἐπιεικῶς τοῖς ἔθεσι προηγμένοι [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1180a8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__8 pronounce a discourse, κατὰ θεωρίαν π. πάντα [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.9.3; αἱ κατὰ σχῆμα προηγμέναι τῶν ὑποθέσεων [prev. work] 2.4.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II intransitive, lead the way, go before, πρόαγε δή [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 227c; σοῦ προάγοντος ἐγὼ ἐφεσπόμην [prev. author] “Phd.” 90b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.6, etc.: with _accusative_ added, προῆγε πολὺ πάντας uncertain in 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 6.1.6 (to be read πάντων)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: of a commander, lead an advance, push forward, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.65.1, 3.35.1, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 metaphorically, ὁ προάγων λόγος the preceding discourse, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 719a; αἱ π. γραφαί 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.6.2; ὁ π. μήν “PSI” 5.450.59 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 go on, advance, ἐπὶ πολὺ προάγει τῇ τε βίᾳ καὶ τῇ ὠμότητι Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.181; ἐκ τῶν ἀσαφεστέρων ἐπὶ τὰ σαφέστερα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 184a19; πόρρω π. ὕβρεως 4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 6 (τὸ ἔργον προῆγε] Refs 4th c.BC+] (ν) is variant for{προσῆγε} in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.92); πᾶς ὁ προάγων καὶ μὴ μένων ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ NT.2John.9: of Time, τῆς ἡμέρας ἤδη προαγούσης 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.8.1 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; reach, attain to, εἰς τὰς ὀκτὼ μυριάδας [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ind.Sto.” 32. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.4 excel, τινος [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.71 (variant{προέχει}); ἀρχαιότητι 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 2.15. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
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