πρόδρομ-ος, ον,
running forward with headlong speed, π. ἦλθον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 211 (Lyric poetry); φυγάδα πρόδρομον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 108 (Lyric poetry), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μόλε π. variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 296 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 running before, going in advance, π. στρατιή [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.14; κήρυκας π. προπέμπειν [prev. author] 1.60; π. ἥκω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 424 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of horsemen in advance of an army, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.121, 122; π. τῶν ἄλλων ἥκειν [prev. author] 7.203, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.22; λεὼς π. ἱππότας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 80 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; mounted skirmishers, οἱ π. 'guides', a special corps in the [[ 1st c.AD(?): Macedonius Epigrammaticus army, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.12.7, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.17; οἱ ἀμφὶ [τὸν ἵππαρχον] πρόδρομοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 1.25; at Athens, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 49.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of light ships, [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.11. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__3 metaphorically, precursor, ἀστέρα.. ἀελίου π.[[ Ion Lyric poetry 10; ἠπίαλος πυρετοῦ π. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 332 (_anapaest meter_); δείπνου π. ἄριστον 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 75.13; π. τοῦ δοκοῦντος καλλίστου εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 154a, compare 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]