προλέγω,
pick out, choose, prefer, Ἀθηναίων προλελεγμένοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.689; ἐξοχώτατοι προλέγονται 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 2.18; ἀριστῆες πασᾶν ἐκ πολίων προλελεγμένοι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.18. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II foretell, Aeolic dialect aorist participle προλέξαις [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 22.7 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; predict, of an oracle, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.53, 8.136; μέμνησθ᾽ ἁγὼ προλέγω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1071 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 973 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πρόρρησιν, of a physician, variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 15; τὰ μέλλοντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.298. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b say beforehand, ταῦτα, ὅτι.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 337a, compare “Euthd.” 275e, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Lycophrone” 7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὡς προλέλεκται as was said above, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 89 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ προλεχθείς the aforesaid, PMasp.[[ 32.63 (6th c.AD), +others ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__II.c προλεγόμεναι (i.e. θέσεις) first principles, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Familiares” 9.18.3. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.d μακρὰ προλεγομένγ a long syllable placed, uttered first, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 39. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]