πρωτεύω,
(πρῶτος) to be the first, hold first place, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.41 (assuming variant), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 692d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1124b23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ πρωτεύοντες the primates or chief men in a city, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.7.2, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; hold position of πρῶτος (which see), [[ “MAMA” 4.151 (from Apollonia)] Refs]; π. τοῦ ἔθνους [[ “OGI” 563.6 (from Cadyanda). ] Refs]
__II with a modal word added, to be first in a thing, καρτερίᾳ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.1; βδελυρίᾳ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.192; γένει 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.21; ἐν ἕδρᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.4.5; περὶ κακίαν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.159; φιλίᾳ π. παρὰ τῷ Κύρῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.28, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τούτοις (i.e. ἐπιτηδεύμασιν) [[ [prev. author] 7.48. ] Refs]
__II.2 with genitive person, to be first of or among, Ἑλλήνων [[[prev. work]6] Refs]; τῶν ῥητόρων [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.171, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.3; π. Ἑλλάδος εἰς ἀρετήν “epigram Gr.” 489: also π. ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.24; ἐν τῷ δήμῳ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.297. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III ={προτερέω}, excel, π. τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ταῖς κυνηγεσίαις [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.81. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]