προαύλ-ιον, τό,
(αὐλός) prelude on the flute, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 417e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1414b20: _metaphorically_, π. τοῦ λόγου 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 33.367a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II αὐλή) place before a court, vestibule, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.77, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2 space before a cattle-pen, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.16. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]