προπέμπω,
aorist προέπεμψα, contraction προὔπεμψα, send before, send forward or forth, πρό μ᾽ ἔπεμψεν ἄναξ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.442; εὖτέ μιν εἰς Ἀΐδαο.. προὔπεμψεν 8.367, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.54, 117, 24.360; π. κήρυκας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60, compare 4.33 (_passive_), 121, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1158, etc.; π. πρὸ τοῦ στρατεύματος ἄνδρας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.23 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle,[[ [prev. work] 5.3.53, “An.” 7.2.14 ] Refs]:—passive, impersonal, προπέπεμπται [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.77. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b with a thing for the object, τινὶ φήμας π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1155 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξίφος afford, furnish, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 1205 ] Refs] (Lyric poetry); π. ἄχη cause, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1287 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs]
__2 of things, send forth, σποδὸς π. πίονας πλούτου πνοάς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 820; ἰοὺς ἀφύκτους καὶ προπέμποντας φόνον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 105. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II conduct, escort, especially a departing traveller, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111, 3.50, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1667, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.16, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 5.2, etc.; τινὰ ἐς δόμους 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 530; νύμφην π. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.9, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ χθονός from the land, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1099; π. τινὰ μέλεσιν καὶ μολπαῖσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1525 (_anapaest meter_); π. τινὰ τοῖς ἵπποις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.8; τοῖς προπέμπουσι καμήλοις Πολύκαρπον “PFlor.” 206.2 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially follow a corpse to the grave, τινὰ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1064 (_anapaest meter_); Καρικῇ μούσῃ τοὺς τελευτήσαντας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τιμὰς π. θεοῖς carry offerings in procession, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 622: jocosely, τὸν ἕνα ψωμὸν ἑνὶ ὄψῳ π.] Refs 4th c.BC+] let one piece of bread be attended by one condiment, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.14.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.148 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a funeral procession, -πεμφθέντες κοινῇ ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 236d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πανδημεὶ προπεμπομένους ἐπὶ θάνατον, of the Minotaur's victims, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.27; ὑπὸ ποιητικῆς ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.37b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]