πρόθεσις, εως, ἡ,
(προτίθημι) placing in public; of a corpse, laying it out [[compare (προτίθημι 11), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 947b, 959a, 959e, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.64. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 public notice, αἱ π. τῶν ἀναγεγραμμένων [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1322a9. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 statement of a case, [[ [prev. author] “Rh.” 1414b8 ] Refs]; ὑπέρ τινος τὴν πρόθεσιν ποιήσασθαι [[[prev. author] “Cat.” ] Refs]; theme, thesis, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.36, +others 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, proposition, statement, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 2.2. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__4 πρόθεσιν ποιεῖσθαι ἐπὶ ταῖς.. προσόδοις to make payment in advance, [[ “IPE” 12.32 A 41 (Olbia, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__5 offering, [[ 3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 328.75 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], Gauthier et Sottas Decret trilingue [[(3rd c.BC), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 1.13 P., “OGI” 90.48 (2nd c.BC), “UPZ” 149.21, 31 (2nd c.BC): especially in “VT” ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] and NT, οἱ ἄρτοι τῆς π. the loaves laid before, shew-bread, [[ LXX.1Ki.21.6(7), NT.Matt.12.4; ἡ π. τῶν ἄρτων NT.Heb.9.2, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.294; ἡ τράπεζα τῆς π. LXX.2Ch.29.18. ] LXX+NT+1st c.AD+]
__II purpose, end proposed, ἐπαινῶ σὴν π. [[ “SIG” 22.14 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae., Epist. Darei), cf. Philipp. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.167, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 47a5, 4th-3rd c.BC: Cleanthes Stoicus 1.131, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.35.2, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.21.2, etc.; π. βίων 4th c.AD: Adamantius Physiognomonicus “Phgn.” 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; defined as σημείωσις ἐπιτελέσεως, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.41; κατὰ πρόθεσιν ] Refs]purposely, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.10.6; τὰ κατὰ π. φύντα 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.144; τὰ κατὰ τὴν π. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.54.1, compare “PTeb.” 27.81 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]