πρόθυρ-ον, τό,
front-door, door-way, especially of the entrance to the αὐλή, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔλασε προθύροιο καὶ αἰθούσης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.323, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.493: _plural_, στῆ δ᾽.. ἐπὶ προθύροις Ὀδυσῆος, οὐδοῦ ἐπ᾽ αὐλείου 1.103; πρόθυρα δωμάτων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 966 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 194 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the entrance to the μέγαρον, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.10, 101, 386, 21.299. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 porch, portico, παραστάδας καὶ π. βούλει ποικίλα [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 42, compare 4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus Hist. 59.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 space before a door, whether or not it is a porch or portico: before the outmost entrance, plural, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.20, 10.220, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.140, 6.35; _sing._, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314c, “Smp.” 175a: Ἑρμαῖ.. λίθινοι.. ἐν ἰδίοις προθύροις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.27, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.78 (_sing._), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 802 (_plural_), 875 (_sing._), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 26 (_sing._): before the entrance to the μέγαρον, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.355 (_sing._)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; before the entrance of a νεωκόριον, [[ “IG” 22.1672.208. ] Refs]
__II metaphorically, Κόρινθος Ἰσθμίου πρόθυρον Ποτειδᾶνος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.5; ἐπὶ τοῖς τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ προθύροις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 64c; πρόθυρα καὶ σχῆμα.. σκιαγραφίαν ἀρετῆς περιγραπτέον [prev. author] “R.” 365c; χείλη.. στόματος νεκταρέου πρόθυρα “Anthologia Graeca” 5.55 (3rd c.BC: Dioscorides Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]