προσδοκ-ία, ἡ,
looking for, expectation, whether in hope or fear, but more commonly fear,
__1 with genitive, μέλλοντος κακοῦ, δεινῶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 198b, “Ti.” 70c; π. τοῦ μέλλοντος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 669a21; τὸν φόβον ὁρίζονται π. κακοῦ [prev. author] “EN” 1115a9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in good sense, π. ἀγαθῶν ἐμβάλλειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.19 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς ἀσφαλείας ἔχειν π. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.281; π. μεγάλην ἔχειν ὡς εὖ ἐροῦντος ἐμοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 194a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς τῶν ἔργων προσδοκίας ἀπαιτεῖν τινα, i.e. the fulfilment of the expectations raised, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.178. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 absolutely, τῶν ὑποκειμένων π. καὶ τῶν ἐλπίδων [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.24 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ ἔσχαται π. [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.78. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 followed by a conjunction, προσδοκία οὐδεμία (i.e. ἦν) μὴ ἐπιπλεύσειαν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.93; π. οὔσης μή τι νεωτερίσωσιν [prev. author] 5.14; προσδοκίαν παρέχειν ὡς.. [prev. author] 7.12; π. ἐμποιεῖν ὡς.. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 with Preps., πρὸς προσδοκίαν according to expectation, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὴν π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 264b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to παρὰ προσδοκίαν, which is used of a kind of joke frequently in Comedy texts, e.g. ἔχειν ὑπὸ ποσσὶ—χίμεθλα (where πέδιλα was expected), [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 152, 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ μεθόδου δεινότητος” 34, Tiberius Rhetor “de Figuris - Rhet.” 16: generally, τὸ παρὰ π. ἐξαπίναιον 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1251.19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]