προεῖπον
Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προεῖπον
Structure:
Etym.: aor2 with no pres. in use, pro/fhmi, proagoreu/w being used instead
Sense
- to tell or state before, to premise
- to proclaim or declare publicly, to make proclamation
- to order or command before
Conjugation
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.
- λέγεται δὲ τὴν ναῦν, ἣ ἔφερεν αὐτό, ἰλύι τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Τιβέριοσ ἐνσχεθεῖσαν οὐδεμιᾷ μηχανῇ σαλεύεσθαι, μέχρι, τῶν μάντεων προειπόντων ἕψεσθαι μόνωσ εἰ γυνὴ καθαρεύουσα ξένων ἀνδρῶν ἑλκύσειε, Κλαυδίαν Κόινταν, μοιχείασ ἔγκλημα ἔχουσαν ἔτι ἄκριτον, καὶ δι’ ἀσωτίαν ἐσ αὐτὸ πιθανωτάτην οὖσαν, ἐπιθειάσαι τε πολλὰ περὶ τῆσ ἀναμαρτησίασ, καὶ ἀναδήσασθαι τῇ μίτρᾳ τὸ σκάφοσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 2:5)
- περὶ δὲ τὴν ἑώ μόλισ αὐτῷ συνῄει τὸ πλῆθοσ, καὶ ὁ φρούραρχοσ ὁ τῆσ Ὠρίκου, τῶν ἔνδον αὐτῷ προειπόντων οὐ κωλύσειν ἐπιόντα Ῥωμαίων ὕπατον, τάσ τε κλεῖσ παρέδωκε τῷ Καίσαρι καὶ παρ’ αὐτῷ κατέμεινε τιμῆσ ἀξιούμενοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 8 6:7)
- εἰ δὲ πολλῶν προειπόντων ἐπιχειροῦμεν καὶ αὐτοὶ λέγειν περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν, οὔπω μεμπτέον, ἂν μὴ καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον διελεγχθῶμεν ἐκείνοισ ἅπαντα λέγοντεσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 2:1)
Synonyms
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to proclaim or declare publicly
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to order or command before
- προστάσσω (to command, order)
- κελεύω (I command, order)
- τάσσω (I order, command)
- ἐπίταξις (a command, order)
- κελευστός (ordered, commanded)
- κελευσμός (an order, command)
- ἐπαγγέλλω (to give orders, command)
- παράγγελμα (an order, command, by word of command)
- παραγγελία (a command or order, a charge)
- ἐντολή (injunction, order, command)
