Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προεῖδον

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προεῖδον

Structure:

Etym.: aor2 with no pres. in use, proora/w being used instead

Sense

  1. to see beforehand, catch sight of, to look forward
  2. to foresee, portend
  3. to have a care for, provide against, to make provision

Conjugation

Aorist tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αὕτη δὲ καὶ τοῦτο προεῖδε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 186 2:3)
  • δοκεῖ δέ μοι καὶ Ἡσίοδοσ, εἰ ὁμοίωσ Ὁμήρῳ τέλειοσ ἦν τὰ ποιητικὰ καὶ μαντικὸσ, ὥσπερ ἐκεῖνοσ οὐκ ἠγνόησε τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀρχὴν ἐσομένην, ἀλλὰ προεῖδε καὶ ἀνεφθέγξατο ἐν τοῖσ ἔπεσιν, οὕτωσ καὶ αὐτὸσ οὐκ ἂν ὥσπερ νῦν ἀπὸ χρυσοῦ γένουσ ἀρξάμενοσ γενεαλογεῖν, ἢ, ἡνίκα ταύτην ἀρχὴν ἐνεστήσατο, περί γε τοῦ τελευταίου καὶ σιδηροῦ γένουσ διαλεγόμενοσ τοῦτον ἂν αὐτοῦ φάναι γενέσθαι τὸν ὄλεθρον, εὖτ’ ἂν γεινόμενοι πολιοκρόταφοι τελέθωσιν, ἀλλ’ ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἡ ὑμετέρα προστασία τε καὶ ἀρχὴ καταστῇ, τότ’ ἂν φάναι φθαρῆναι τὸ σιδηροῦν φῦλον ἐν τῇ γῇ, καὶ Δίκῃ δὲ καὶ Αἰδοῖ τότ’ ἂν ἀποδοθῆναι κάθοδον εἰσ ἀνθρώπουσ, καὶ οἰκτεῖραι τοὺσ πρὸ ὑμῶν γενομένουσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 31:9)

Synonyms

  1. to foresee

  2. to have a care for

Related

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

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