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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

  • τὴν γοῦν Κύρου τοῦ πρώτου ἀνδρείαν καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα πόλεμον ἔσεσθαι πρὸσ Ἀστυάγην προείδοντο οἱ ᾠδοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 33 4:2)
  • πόλλ’ ἂν εἰπεῖν ἔχοιεν Ὀλύνθιοι νῦν, ἃ τότ’ εἰ προείδοντο, οὐκ ἂν ἀπώλοντο· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 82:3)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ νόμοι πολὺ τἀναντία καὶ τὰσ ἀναγκαίασ προφάσεισ, ὅπωσ μὴ μείζουσ γίγνωνται, προείδοντο, οἱο͂ν ἀνάγκη γάρ μοι ταῦτα καὶ ζητεῖν καὶ πυνθάνεσθαι διὰ τοῦτον γέγονεν εἰσὶ κακηγορίασ δίκαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 27:4)
  • καὶ γὰρ εἴ τισ ἐφύετο κοινὸσ πᾶσιν κίνδυνοσ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, οὗτοι πρῶτοι προείδοντο καὶ πολλάκισ εἰσ σωτηρίαν ἅπαντασ παρεκάλεσαν, ὅπερ γνώμησ ἀπόδειξίσ ἐστιν εὖ φρονούσησ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 24:2)
  • καὶ εἰ μὴ θεῶν τισ εὔνοια προείδετο τῶν ἄδικα πάσχειν μελλόντων, εἰσ δεινὰσ ἂν ἅπαντεσ ἤλθομεν συμφοράσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 9 6:2)
  • προεῖδον δὲ αὐτὸν μακρόθεν πρὸ τοῦ ἐγγίσαι αὐτὸν πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἐπονηρεύοντο τοῦ ἀποκτεῖναι αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 37:18)

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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