προοίμι-ον, τό,
Trag. contraction φροίμιον (see. below): (οἶμος):— opening, introduction; in Music, prelude, overture, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Epic dialect poems, proëm, preamble, [[ [prev. author] “N.” 2.3, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1343 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in speeches, exordium, [[ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 43 at Title Page, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1414b19, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.56S., “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.96, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προοιμίοις ἡδονῆς with prefaces about pleasure, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically of any prelude or beginning, φροίμιον χορεύσομαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 31, compare 829 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φροιμίοις [δυσφροιμίοις][[ [prev. work] 1216, compare “Th.” 7 ] Refs]; λόγους.. μηδέπω 'ν προοιμίοις only just beginning, [[ [prev. author] “Pr.” 741 ] Refs]; εἴ τι τοῦδε φ. ματᾷ any part of this presage, [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 142; ὁρῶ τάδε φροίμια.. πόνων [prev. author] “Supp.” 830 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 568, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.3; ἐγχέων π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 78; π. δείπνου 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 110.3; π. ἔχθρας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 22.4.15; ἀρχῆς [prev. author] 25.3.8 (_plural_); δάκρυά μοι τὰ π. τῆς τέχνης 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Somn.” 3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of premonitory symptoms of disease, [[ 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “Synopsis” 8.2. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II hymn or short poem, such as those attributed to Homer, Ἀπόλλωνος [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.104, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 60d, “R.” 531d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φροίμιον Ἀντιλόχου (perhaps Ἀρχιλόχου) [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 223. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]