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προεῖπον

Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προεῖπον

Structure:

Etym.: aor2 with no pres. in use, pro/fhmi, proagoreu/w being used instead

Sense

  1. to tell or state before, to premise
  2. to proclaim or declare publicly, to make proclamation
  3. to order or command before

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

  • Ἐλπὶσ δὲ μούνη σωτηρίησ, ἐὰν μὴ ἐμβάλλῃ, πλὴν τὰ κατὰ δακτύλουσ, καὶ χεῖρα ἄκρην‧ ταῦτα δὲ, προειπέτω τοὺσ κινδύνουσ‧ ἐγχειρέειν ἐμβάλλειν ἢ τῇ πρώτῂ, ἢ τῇ δευτέρῃ‧ ἢν δὲ μὴ, πρὸσ τὰσ δέκα‧ ἥκιστα τεταρταῖα‧ ἐμβολὴ δὲ, οἱ μοχλίσκοι‧ ἰήσισ δὲ, ὡσ κεφαλῆσ ὀστέων, καὶ θέρμη‧ ἐλλεβόρῳ δὲ καὶ αὐτίκα ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἐμβαλλομένοισι βέλτιον χρῆσθαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 33.7)

Synonyms

  1. to proclaim or declare publicly

  2. to order or command before

Related

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

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