Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πρόδρομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόδρομος πρόδρομον

Structure: προδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from prodramei=n aor2 inf. of protre/xw

Sense

  1. running forward, with headlong speed
  2. going in advance, the advanced guard, "the guides, "
  3. a precursor

Examples

  • ‐ ἀὼσ δὴ πέλασ, ἀὼσ γίγνεται, καί τισ προδρόμων ὅδε γ’ ἐστὶν ἀστήρ. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 18)
  • τῶν δὲ προδρόμων καλουμένων σύκων ὁ αὐτὸσ Θεόφραστοσ μνημονεύει ἐν εφυτικῶν αἰτίων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 121)
  • καὶ τούτων ἡγεμὼν ἦν Ἀμύντασ ὁ Ἀρραβαίου, ἔχων τῶν τε ἑταίρων τὴν ἴλην τὴν ἐξ Ἀπολλωνίασ, ἧσ ἰλάρχησ ἦν Σωκράτησ ὁ Σάθωνοσ, καὶ τῶν προδρόμων καλουμένων ἴλασ τέσσαρασ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 12 7:2)
  • καὶ ἄλλοι αὖ τῶν προδρόμων προσελάσαντεσ ἀκριβέστερον οὗτοι κατιδόντεσ ἔφασκον δοκεῖν εἶναί σφισιν οὐ πλείουσ ἢ χιλίουσ τοὺσ ἱππέασ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 7 7:4)
  • ἀναλαβὼν οὖν τήν τε βασιλικὴν ἴλην καὶ τῶν ἑταίρων μίαν καὶ τῶν προδρόμων τοὺσ Παίονασ ἤλαυνε σπουδῇ, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην στρατιὰν βάδην ἕπεσθαι ἐκέλευσεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 8 1:1)

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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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