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πρόλογος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόλογος

Etym.: prole/gw

Sense

  1. the prologue, that portion of the play that comes before, a narrative of facts introductory to the plot

Examples

  • πρόλογοσ μὲν αὐτῆσ ἐστιν ἐκ τῶν στοιχείων, ὃν χρὴ λέγειν διαιροῦντασ κατὰ τὰσ παραγραφὰσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 791)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν προοίμιόν ἐστιν ἀρχὴ λόγου, ὅπερ ἐν ποιήσει πρόλογοσ καὶ ἐν αὐλήσει προαύλιον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 1:1)
  • παράδειγμα ὁ Ἀλκίνου ἀπόλογοσ, ὃσ πρὸσ τὴν Πηνελόπην ἐν ἑξήκοντα ἔπεσιν πεποίηται, καὶ ὡσ Φάϋλλοσ τὸν κύκλον, καὶ ὁ ἐν τῷ Οἰνεῖ πρόλογοσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 7:2)

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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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