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πρόοδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόοδος πρόοδον

Structure: προοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. going before, a party of soldiers in advance

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐνταῦθα δὴ θεὶσ ὁ Πολυσπέρχων τὸν χρυσοῦν οὐρανίσκον, καὶ καθίσασ ὑπ’ αὐτῷ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ τοὺσ φίλουσ, τὸν μὲν Δείναρχον εὐθὺσ ἐκ προόδου λαβεῖν ἐκέλευσε καὶ στρεβλώσαντασ ἀποκτεῖναι, τοῖσ δὲ Ἀθηναίοισ ἀπέδωκε λόγον. (Plutarch, chapter 33 5:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ εἶδε τοὺσ Πέρσασ ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ἐωσμένουσ, ἤλγησέ τε καὶ γνοὺσ ὅτι οὐδαμῶσ ἂν θᾶττον σχοίη τοὺσ πολεμίουσ τῆσ εἰσ τὸ πρόσθεν προόδου ἢ εἰ εἰσ τὸ ὄπισθεν περιελάσειεν αὐτῶν, παραγγείλασ ἕπεσθαι τοῖσ μεθ’ αὑτοῦ περιήλαυνεν εἰσ τὸ ὄπισθεν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 46:2)
  • ἦν γάρ τισ ἐπίνοια περὶ τὸν Ἀχαιὸν τοιαύτη, πρῶτον μὲν διαφυγεῖν τοὺσ ἐνεστῶτασ κινδύνουσ, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ποιήσασθαι δίχα προόδου τὴν ὁρμὴν ἐπὶ τοὺσ κατὰ Συρίαν τόπουσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 17 10:1)

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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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