πρόνοια,
Ionic dialect προν-οίη, ἡ, (πρόνοος) perceiving beforehand, foresight, foreknowledge, τοὖπος τὸ θεοπρόπον τᾶς παλαιφάτου π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 823 (Lyric poetry); προνοίαισι τοῦ πεπρωμένου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 684 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 ={πρόγνωσις}[[ 11.b, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18 (2).8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II foresight, forethought, ἐπῄνεσ᾽.. πρόνοιαν ἣν ἔθου [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 536; π. δ᾽ ἐστὶν οὐδενὸς σαφής [prev. author] “OT” 978 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προνοίας οὕνεκα so far as foresight, caution is required, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 774, compare “El.” 1015; ἐκ προνοίης ] Refs]with forethought, purposely, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120, 159, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to κατὰ τύχην, [[ [prev. author] 8.87, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.21, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 26.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ προνοίας τινῶν by their precautions, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.95; τὴν π. τὴν ές ἡμέας ἔχουσαν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προνοίᾳ τῶν συγγενῶν, φίλων, τῆς πόλεως, by care for.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.56 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of crimes committed with design or malice prepense, ἐκ προνοίας τραῦμα, ἐκ π. φόνοι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.212, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.6, etc.; ἐκ π. ἀποθνῄσκειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.22, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐκ π., opposed to ἀκούσια, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1300b26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; so οὐδεμία π. ἐστι τραύματος no intention of wounding, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.41 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρόνοιαν ἔχειν (or ἴσχειν) τινός to take thought for.., show care for.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1061, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89, etc.; περί τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 283; ὑπέρ τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 16.9; ἡ τοῦ χόρτου π. “PFlor.” 131.7 (3rd c.AD), compare 148.2 (3rd c.AD): with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive, πολλὴν π. εἶχεν εὐσχήμως (perhaps εὐσχήμων) πεσεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 569 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλὴν π. ἔχειν μέλλοντας.. to beware of doing a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.91; π. ποιεῖσθαί τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.97, etc.: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 7.38. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]