προβαίνω,
future -βήσομαι: perfect -βέβηκα: aorist 2 προὔβην, imperative πρόβᾱ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 262, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 872 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], plural πρόβᾱτε [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 841 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1047 (Lyric poetry): 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has only ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect and present participle προβιβάς (as if from βίβημἰ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.18, but προβιβῶντα (-τἰ (as if from βιβάὠ [prev. work] 807, +others codices (see. below)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative προβιβάσθων [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; participle προβάοντε, read by [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus for προβοῶντε, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.277; προβῶντες 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 126 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— step forward, advance, κραιπνά, κοῦφα ποσὶ προβιβάς, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.18, 158, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸν δ᾽ ὦκα προβιβάντα (-βιβῶντα codices) πόδες φέρον [[ 15.555 ] Refs]; ὑπασπίδια προβιβάντι (-βιβῶντι codices) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.807, compare 16.609; π. εὐθέσι τοῖς σκέλεσι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 604b5: with _accusative_ _cognate_, οἵαν ὁδὸν ἁ δειλαιοτάτα π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 263 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μέγα π. take a big stride forward, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 60. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b of hair, grow, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 64.50. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__2 as a mark of Time, ἄστρα προβέβηκε they are far gone in heaven, i.e. it is past midnight. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.252 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ νὺξ π. the night is wearing fast, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.13: hence of Time itself, τοῦ χρόνου προβαίνοντος] Refs 5th c.BC+] as time went on, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53, 140; ὁ μὲν χρόνος δὴ διὰ χρόνου προὔβαινέ μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 285 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τὰ μὲν προβέβηκεν the past, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 583 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; προβαίνοντος τοῦ ἔργου, τοῦ πολέμου, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.47.3; τοῦ κώθωνος εὖ μάλα προβεβηκότος Hegesander Historicus 21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τοῦ προβεβηκότος, e re nata, on the spur of the moment, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.12.2: of Age, προβήσεται ἡ ἡλικία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, οἱ προβεβηκότες τῇ ἡλικίᾳ advanced in age, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.16, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τῶν ἡμερῶν, ταῖς ἡμέραις, [[ LXX.Josh.13.1, 23.1: _absolutely_, οἱ π. 3rd c.BC: Bato Comicus 7.9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 24; ἐπεὶ προέβη τοῖς ἔτεσιν 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.580c; προβεβηκότες ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῶν NT.Luke.1.7, compare 18; ἡλικίας εἰς τὸ πρόσθε π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 325c; π. εἰς πεντήκοντα ἔτη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 68.4 (nisi to be read προεβεβιώκεἰ. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]