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πρόδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόδηλος πρόδηλον

Structure: προδηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. clear or manifest beforehand, from a place in sight

Examples

  • ἐγέλασαν ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ καὶ δῆλοι ἦσαν κατεγνωκότεσ μου πολλὴν τὴν ἄνοιαν, εἰ μὴ ἐπισταίμην τὰ προδηλότατα καὶ περὶ ὧν οὐδεὶσ ἂν εὖ φρονῶν ἀντείποι μὴ οὐχὶ οὕτωσ ἔχειν. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 8:3)
  • Ἀριστομένησ δὲ ‐ οὐ γάρ τι ἡ ὀπὴ καὶ τούτῳ παρέχειν ἐδύνατο ἔξοδον ‐ εὐρυτέραν τε ταῖσ χερσὶν ἐποίησε καὶ οἴκαδε ἐσ τὴν Εἶραν ἀποσώζεται, παραδόξῳ μὲν τῇ τύχῃ καὶ ἐσ τὴν ἅλωσιν χρησάμενοσ, τὸ γάρ οἱ φρόνημα ἦν καὶ τὰ τολμήματα μείζονα ἢ ὡσ ἐλπίσαι τινὰ Ἀριστομένην αἰχμάλωτον ἂν γενέσθαι, παραδοξοτέρα δέ ἐστι καὶ πάντων προδηλότατα οὐκ ἄνευ θεοῦ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ Κεάδα σωτηρία. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 10:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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