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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

  • κτείνουσι δὲ καὶ Χάρητα, καὶ μετ’ αὐτοῦ τινα τῶν συγγενῶν Ιἠσοῦν καὶ Ιοὔστου δὲ τοῦ Τιβεριέωσ ἀδελφὴν ἀνεῖλον, καθὼσ ἤδη προείπομεν, γράφουσι δὲ καὶ πρόσ με παρακαλοῦντεσ πέμψαι καὶ δύναμιν αὐτοῖσ ὁπλιτῶν καὶ τοὺσ ἀναστήσοντασ αὐτῶν τῇ πόλει τείχη. (Flavius Josephus, 223:1)
  • ἄλλοι δὲ καινοί τινεσ εἰσαγόμενοι θρησκείασ τυγχάνουσιν, [ὡσ ἐν παρεκβάσει ὧν προείπομεν τοὺσ τόπουσ ἐρημωθέντασ καταλιπεῖν] καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν τὰ μὲν ἐρημοῦται, τὰ δὲ νεωστὶ κατὰ τὴν αὐτῶν βούλησιν ἕκαστοσ ἱδρύεται, δέον [τοίνυν] τοὐναντίον τὴν περὶ τοῦ θεοῦ δόξαν αὐτοὺσ καὶ τὴν πρὸσ αὐτὸν τιμὴν ἀμετακίνητον διαφυλάττειν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 224:1)
  • ἐκεῖνο μὲν οὖν, ὡσ προείπομεν, εἰδέναι δεῖ ἐπὶ τῶν μύθων, ὅτι εἰσάγεται οὐχ ὡσ ἐγένετο, ἀλλ’ ὅτι λέγεται γενέσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 22:24)
  • αὕτη δὲ ὅτι Αἲξ ἐπεκαλεῖτο προείπομεν, διὰ τὸ Θαλλὸν τὸν κάπηλον ἐξαναλῶσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 51 2:2)
  • ὅτι δὲ εἷσ ἦν ὁ Ἡρακλῆσ τῶν πλεῖστον πινόντων προείπομεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 38 1:2)

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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