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προφυλακή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφυλακή

Structure: προφυλακ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: profula/ssw

Sense

  1. a guard in front;, outposts, videttes, piquets, advanced, an advanced guard

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ ἤμην ἐγὼ καὶ οἱ ἄνδρεσ τῆσ προφυλακῆσ ὀπίσω μου, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἐξ ἡμῶν ἐκδιδυσκόμενοσ ἀνὴρ τά ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 4:17)
  • ὅ τε γὰρ χῶροσ ἐπιτήδειοσ αὐτῷ ἐφαίνετο αὐξῆσαι ἐπὶ μέγα τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἐν καλῷ οἰκισθήσεσθαι τῆσ ἐπὶ Σκύθασ, εἴποτε ξυμβαίνοι, ἐλάσεωσ καὶ τῆσ προφυλακῆσ τῆσ χώρασ πρὸσ τὰσ καταδρομὰσ τῶν πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐποικούντων βαρβάρων. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 1 3:2)
  • ἅμα δὲ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐπιπεσὼν τῇ Φαρναβάζου στρατοπεδείᾳ, τῆσ μὲν προφυλακῆσ αὐτοῦ Μυσῶν ὄντων πολλοὶ ἔπεσον, αὐτοὶ δὲ διαφεύγουσι, τὸ δὲ στρατόπεδον ἁλίσκεται, καὶ πολλὰ μὲν ἐκπώματα καὶ ἄλλα δὴ οἱᾶ Φαρναβάζου κτήματα, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ σκεύη πολλὰ καὶ ὑποζύγια σκευοφόρα. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 27:1)
  • εἰσ ἃ βλέπων ὁ Φίλιπποσ, τούσ τε τῶν Ἀχαιῶν μισθοφόρουσ καὶ τῶν παρ’ αὑτῷ Κρητῶν καὶ τῶν Γαλατικῶν ἱππέων τινάσ, σὺν δὲ τούτοισ τῶν ἐξ Ἀχαί̈ασ ἐπιλέκτων εἰσ δισχιλίουσ πεζοὺσ ἁθροίσασ, ἐν τῇ τῶν Δυμαίων πόλει κατέλειπεν, ἅμα μὲν ἐφεδρείασ ἔχοντασ, ἅμα δὲ προφυλακῆσ τάξιν πρὸσ τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ Ἠλείασ φόβον. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 3 2:1)

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

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