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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

  • εἶτα Ἀλέξανδροσ μὲν ἐπεθύμησεν ἐν τῷ Κύδνῳ λούσασθαι καλόν τε καὶ διαυγῆ τὸν ποταμὸν ἰδὼν καὶ ἀσφαλῶσ βαθὺν καὶ προσηνῶσ ὀξὺν καὶ νήξασθαι ἡδὺν καὶ θέρουσ ὡρ́ᾳ ψυχρόν, ὥστε καὶ ἐπὶ προδήλῳ τῇ νόσῳ ἣν ἐνόσησεν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, δοκεῖ μοι οὐκ ἂν τοῦ λουτροῦ ἀποσχέσθαι· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 1:1)
  • καὶ πῶσ δυνατόν, ὦ Ζεῦ, ἐφ’ οὕτω σαφεῖ καὶ προδήλῳ τῷ χρησμῷ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 31:8)
  • προσδοκήσῃσ δὲ μηδὲν τοιοῦτο παρ’ ἡμῶν οἱᾶ σὺ διεξελήλυθασ, ἐπαινῶν εἴ τισ ἄπροικον ἔγημεν αἰσχρὰν γυναῖκα ἢ εἴ τισ ἀργύριον ἐπέδωκε γαμουμένῃ φίλου ἀνδρὸσ θυγατρὶ δύο τάλαντα, ἢ καὶ νὴ Δί’ εἴ τισ παρέσχεν ἑαυτὸν δεδησόμενον ἐπὶ προδήλῳ τῷ μικρὸν ὕστερον λυθήσεσθαι· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 34:9)
  • διὸ καὶ μέλαν ἱστίον ἔχουσαν, ὡσ ἐπὶ συμφορᾷ προδήλῳ, τὴν ναῦν ἔπεμπον· (Plutarch, chapter 17 4:2)
  • "οὕτω φήσει τισ καὶ ἡμᾶσ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ φιλοσοφήσαντασ περὶ τῶν ὕδνων ἀμφισβητήσιμον ἐχόντων τὴν γένεσιν, ὡσ ὁρᾶσ ἐν δὲ τούτοισ ὑποκειμένησ τῷ λόγῳ τῆσ εὐπειθείασ, καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν προδήλῳ τῷ εἶναι πειθούσησ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 17:4)

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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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