πρώην,
Doric dialect πρώᾱν [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.4, 15.15 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; contraction πρῶν [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 84, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 5.62 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρᾶν [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.115 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— lately, just now, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.832, 24.500, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 408, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 258, Herod.[same place], “UPZ” 42.25 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 6.4.3, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in a book, above, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1104b18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 long ago, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor “Panegyricus in Anastasium - Procopii Gazaei in Imp. Anastasium Panegyricus” p.505 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἀγησίλαος ὁ π. [[[prev. work]p.514 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II more definitely, the day before yesterday, οὐ.. χθές, ἀλλὰ π. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.113 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέχρι οὗ π. τε καὶ χθές till yesterday or the day before, i.e. till very lately, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.53; π. καὶ χθές 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χθές τε καὶ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 726 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χθὲς καὶ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 677d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐχθὲς καὶ π. [[ [prev. author] “Grg.” 470d ] Refs]; ἐχθὲς καὶ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄρτι καὶ π., ὀψὲ καὶ π., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 1, 2.394b. (The first syllable of πρώαν is short in 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus [same places] ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρόαν is written in [[ 15.15 (codices _optative_), variant in 4.60.) ] Refs]