Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προήδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προήδομαι

Structure: προ (Prefix) + ή̔δ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be pleased before or first

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect 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

  • ΤΟΙΣ δὲ ἀσεβέσι μέχρι τέλουσ ἀνελεήμων θυμὸσ ἐπέστη. προῄδει γὰρ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἦν, οἶμαι, τόθ’ ὃ νυνὶ ποιεῖν, ἐκ παλαιῶν χρόνων καὶ ψηφισμάτων πολλῶν ἐκλέξαντα, ἃ μήτε προῄδει μηδεὶσ μήτ’ ἂν ᾠήθη τήμερον ῥηθῆναι, διαβάλλειν, καὶ μετενεγκόντα τοὺσ χρόνουσ καὶ προφάσεισ ἀντὶ τῶν ἀληθῶν ψευδεῖσ μεταθέντα τοῖσ πεπραγμένοισ δοκεῖν τι λέγειν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 327:1)
  • διὰ τοῦτο καλῶσ λέγουσιν οἱ φιλόσοφοι ὅτι εἰ προῄδει ὁ καλὸσ καὶ ἀγαθὸσ τὰ ἐσόμενα, συνήργει ἂν καὶ τῷ νοσεῖν καὶ τῷ ἀποθνῄσκειν καὶ τῷ πηροῦσθαι, αἰσθανόμενόσ γε, ὅτι ἀπὸ τῆσ τῶν ὅλων διατάξεωσ τοῦτο ἀπονέμεται, κυριώτερον δὲ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρουσ καὶ ἡ πόλισ τοῦ πολίτου. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 5:1)
  • ὁ δέ, προῄδει γὰρ αὐτῶν τὴν ταραχήν, τῷ πλήθει τοὺσ στρατιώτασ ἐνόπλουσ ἐσθῆσιν ἰδιωτικαῖσ κεκαλυμμένουσ ἐγκαταμίξασ καὶ ξίφει μὲν χρήσασθαι κωλύσασ, ξύλοισ δὲ παίειν τοὺσ κεκραγότασ ἐγκελευσάμενοσ σύνθημα δίδωσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ βήματοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 230:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ δὴ προῄδει γ’ ὁ Σωκράτησ ὅτι πάντων μᾶλλον ἢ ’κείνου μνησθήσοιτο ὁ Καλλικλῆσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 185:9)

Synonyms

  1. to be pleased before or first

Derived

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

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