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πρόφρων?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: prophrōn

Principal Part: πρόφρων πρόφρονος

Structure: προφρων (Stem)

Etym.: φρήν

Sense

  1. with forward mind, zealous, willing, ready, glad
  2. earnest, zealous
  3. readily, earnestly, zealously

Declension

Third declension

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

  • οὔτε κε νῆα καυάξαις οὔτ ἄνδρας ἀποφθείσειε θάλασσα, εἰ δὴ μὴ πρόφρων γε Ποσειδάων ἐνοσίχθων ἢ Ζεὺς ἀθανάτων βασιλεὺς ἐθέλῃσιν ὀλέσσαι: (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 73:2)
  • πολλή τέ οἱ ἕσπετο τιμὴ ῥεῖα μάλ, ᾧ πρόφρων γε θεὰ ὑποδέξεται εὐχάς, καί τέ οἱ ὄλβον ὀπάζει, ἐπεὶ δύναμίς γε πάρεστιν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:8)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὅτ ἐκρίνοντο θεοὶ θνητοί τ ἄνθρωποι Μηκώνῃ, τότ ἔπειτα μέγαν βοῦν πρόφρονι θυμῷ δασσάμενος προέθηκε, Διὸς νόον ἐξαπαφίσκων. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:14)
  • σὺ δὲ πάτερ κτίστορ Αἴτνας, ζαθέων ἱερῶν ὁμώνυμε, δὸς ἐμὶν ὅ τι περ τεᾷ κεφαλᾷ θέλῃς πρόφρων δόμεν ἐμὶν τείν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric15)
  • Ὑγέεια, πρεσβίστα μακάρων, μετὰ σοῦ ναίοιμι τὸ λειπόμενον βιοτᾶς, σὺ δέ μοι πρόφρων σύνοικος εἰής: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce, chapter 63 1:1)
  • συγγνοῖτο δῆτα καὶ παρασταίη πρόφρων. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 2:9)

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

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