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προλαμβάνω,
future -λήψομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.16: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist προὔλαβον:—passive, see below[[ 1.5 ] Refs]:— take or receive before, τὴν πόλιν [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 26.9 codices; τὰ χωρία καὶ λιμένας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀργύριον π. receive money in advance, [[ [prev. author] 50.14, 35; τὰ ἐφόδια 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.172; τρία τάλαντα παρά τινος [prev. author] 2.166; ἅπαντα ἡμῶν τὰ χωρία 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.16, etc.; also π. χάριν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 914 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μισθὸν τῆς ἀγγελίας for the message, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 37; γάλα μετὰ μέλιτος “IG” 42(1).126.15 (Epid., 2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; π. τὴν ἡλικίαν [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.162 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. τὴν αὔξησιν begin their growth before, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, to be contained in advance, ἐν τῷ ὄντι ἄρα ζωὴ προείληπται καὶ ὁ νοῦς [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 103. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__2 take or seize beforehand, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.142; τὴν ἀρχήν 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 40.24; ὅσα τῆς πόλεως π. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῦτο π., ὅπως σώσομεν provide that.., [[ [prev. author] 3.2: with ] Refs]participle, προλαβὼν κατεγνωκότας ὑμᾶς having first procured your vote of condemnation, [[ [prev. author] 24.77 ] Refs]:—passive, σῶμα προειλημμένον ὑπὸ νόσου [[ “Corpus Hermeticum” 12.3. ] Refs]
__2.b get or take as a start, προειλήφασι πολὺν χρόνον have had a long start, [[ 3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 60.5 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; π. τῆς νυκτὸς ὁπόσον ἂν δυναίμην [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __3 take in preference, τι πρό τινος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1141. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 take away or off before, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων προὔλαβον μόγις πόδα, μὴ θανεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1253. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 assume in advance, τὴν ὁλότητα προλαβὼν ἐγέννησεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς τὴν παντότητα [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 253 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; προειλήφθω.. δισχιλίων σταδίων τὸ βάθος [εἶναι] [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 34.6.7. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II to be beforehand with, anticipate,
__II.1 with accusative person, get the start of, τὰς κύνας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.19, see below 3; π. τῷ λόγῳ τινάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βραχὺν χρόνον π. ἡμᾶς, i.e. in dying, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.117e; π. τῇ ῥιζώσει τοὺς χειμῶνας 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.3, compare “CP” 3.24.3: with _genitive_ _person_, προλαβών μου ὥστε πρότερος λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἵνα μὴ -λημφθῶμεν (i.e. by death) [[ 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2 with accusative of things, π. γόους, μαντεύματα, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 339 (Lyric poetry), “Ion” 407; τὸν καιρόν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.14.12, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 34, etc.; τὸν ὄρθρον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of mental anticipation, π. ὡς οὕτως ἔχον πρὶν γινόμενον οὕτως ἰδεῖν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 765a28; τὰ συμβησόμενα ταῖς ἐννοίαις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.112.7, compare 3.1.7; τὰ πολλὰ εἰκασίᾳ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 8; π. ὅτι.. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.102e, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 with genitive spatii, π. τῆς ὁδοῦ get a start on the way, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.105; πολὺ τῆς ὁδοῦ π. 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 7.29.2 (but just above, π. ὡς πλείστην ὁδὸν τοὺς διώξοντας); π. ῥᾳδίως τῆς φυγῆς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.33 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τῆς διώξεως get a start of the pursuers, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.94: _metaphorically_, μύθου προλαβοῦσα] Refs 1st c.BC+] speaking first, Philicus in [[ “Stud.Ital.” 9.44, compare 46. ] Refs]
__II.3.b generally, π. τῶν κηρύκων anticipate them, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b24 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῦ χρόνου π. precede in point of time, [[ [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1050b5. ] Refs]
__II.4 with dative modi, π. τῷ δρόμῳ get a start in running, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.7; τῇ διανοίᾳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 660; τῇ φυγῇ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 20, “Cic.” 47. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5 with infinitive, προέλαβε μυρίσαι [[ NT.Mark.14.8. ] NT]
__II.6 detect, ἐν παραπτώματι [[ NT.Gal.6.1 (_passive_). ] NT]
__II.7 anticipate, τι τῶν μελλόντων [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.620; τὸ μέλλον τοῖς λογισμοῖς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 54.2. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.8 absolutely, προὔλαβε πολλῷ was far ahead, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.19, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.31, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.15.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; gain an advantage, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.15. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.8.b anticipate the event, prejudge, ἐπειδὰν ἅπαντ᾽ ἀκούσητε κρίνατε, μὴ πρότερον προλαμβάνετε [[ [prev. author] 4.14; οἱ νόμοι προλαβόντες ἐπιμέλονται ὅπως.. ] Refs]by anticipation, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; come before the time, opposed to ὑστερίζειν, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.353 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of corn-buyers, buy earlier, [[ “SIG” 976.49 (Samos, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:— middle, προλαμβάνου [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 701:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, τὸ προειλημμένον that which is prejudged, [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.8.c precede, go before, ὁ προλαβὼν βίος his previous life,[[ argument 2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.3; τὰ προλαβόντα ] Refs 4th c.BC+]what precedes, [[ 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Bello Vandalico” 2.16 ] Refs 6th c.AD+]; ἡ προλαβοῦσα τράπεζα the preceding meal, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 57.24 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; also τῶν προλαβόντων τἢν μνήμην the memory of the past, [[ 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus Gaz. “Pan.” p.495 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III repeat from the origin, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.16; μικρὸν π. [prev. author] 16.24. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV Philos., form a preconception (compare πρόληψις), prejudge, οἷα προειλήφαμεν [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.13, compare “Sign.” 22 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—middle, [[ [prev. author] “D.” 1.13] Refs]:— passive, [[ [prev. author] “Oec.” p.57 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
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