προέχω,
contraction προὔχω, as always in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, except 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.11 (see. infr. B), also in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus and 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future προέξω: aorist προέσχον, middle προεσχόμην, προὐσχόμην, compare προΐσχω:— hold before, τὴν ἀσπίδα τῆς κωλῆς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 989 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially so as to protect another, τὼ χεῖρε π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, hold before oneself, προὔχοντο ἑκάστοθι ἐννέα ταύρους [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; hold out before one, πρὸ δούρατ᾽ ἔχοντο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.355, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.42 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; προὐσχόμην σε held you out as a child (to do your needs), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1385. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically in middle, put forward as a pretext, τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοιο [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 80 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅπερ μάλιστα προὔχονται εἰ καθαιρεθείη, μὴ ἂν γίγνεσθαι τὸν πόλεμον the cancellation of which is the chief consideration in return for which they pretend that war would not occur, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b hold forth, offer, ἃ προείχοντο αὐτοῖς [[ [prev. author] 3.68: προΐσχομαι (which see) is more usual in this sense. ] Refs]
__II to be possessed or informed of a thing beforehand, π. τῶν Ἀθηναίων οὐ φιλίας γνώμας [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.4, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 31.27, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 43.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]