πρόσωπον, τό:
plural πρόσωπα, Epic dialect (Aeolic dialect accusative to [[Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212)] Refs 8th c.BC+] προσώπατα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.192, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.230 (1st c.AD(?): Macedonius Epigrammaticus), 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.419, etc.; _dative_ προσώπασι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212: a _masculine_ _nominative_ πρόσωπος is cited from 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 250 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— face, countenance (compare μέτωπον), [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural, even of a single person, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.212, 18.414, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.361, +others (except 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.24), and so in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 594 (variant{-πον}), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 871.6 (see.below), “El.” 1277 (Lyric poetry), “OC” 314, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.11 (uncertain), “Anthologia Graeca” 9.322 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus): _sing._ in “Hymni Homerici” 10.2, 31.12 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], and usually in later writers; π. κλιθὲν προσώπῳ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 37.12; εἰς π. βλέπειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 280 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς π. τινὸς ἀφικέσθαι come before him,[[ [prev. work] 720; π. πρός τινα στρέφειν [prev. author] “Ph.” 457; οὐκ ὄψεσθε τὸ π. μου LXX.Gen.43.3, compare “UPZ” 70.5 (2nd c.BC)] LXX+2nd c.BC+]; κατὰ πρόσωπον in front, facing, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.106, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43, etc.; τὴν κατὰ π. τῆς ἀντίας φάλαγγος τάξιν [prev. work] 6.3.35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ π. Αἰγύπτου facing, fronting Egypt, [[ LXX.Gen.25.18 ] LXX]; opposed to κατὰ νώτου, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.28.9 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κατὰ π. ἄγειν, opposed to κατὰ κέρας ὑπεραίρειν, [[ [prev. author] 11.14.6, etc.] Refs]; κατὰ π. in person, ἡ κατὰ π. ἔντευξις [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 17 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; κατὰ π. παραμυθήσασθαι, opposed to διὰ τοῦ ψαφίσματος, [[ “IG” 42(1).86.22 (Epid.); so κατὰ πρόσωπα 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus “Ars astronomica” 11.21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also πρὸς τὸ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ προσώπου Ἰεριχώ in front of Jericho, [[ LXX.Deu.34.1; ἔρρ᾽ ἐκ προσώπου 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 8.59; ἀπὸ π. τῆς γῆς LXX.Amos.9.8 ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]; βλέπειν εἰς π. τινός regard his countenance, [[NT.Matt.22.16: usually of the face of man or God, as λειτουργῶν τῷ π. Κυρίου LXX.1Ki.2.11; οἱ ἄρτοι τοῦ π., of shewbread, [prev. work] 21.6 ] LXX+NT]: of the ibis, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of dogs, ἀπὸ τῶν π. φαιδραί [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of horses, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 631a5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of deer,[[[prev. work] 579a2 ] Refs]; of fish, [[ 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 30, 33.16 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; face of the moon, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 871.6 (_plural_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.920b: _metaphorically_, ἀργυρωθεῖσαι πρόσωπα.. ἀοιδαί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]