προθέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προθέω
προθεύσομαι
Structure:
προ
(Prefix)
+
θέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to run before, he was, ahead
- to run forward or forth
- to outrun, outstrip
Conjugation
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.
- ἄγ’, ἤν σ’ ἔρωμαι δύο λόγω προθεῖσ’ ἅμα, πότερα τυραννεῖν ἢ πόλιν σῷσαι θέλεισ, ἐρεῖσ τυραννεῖν; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 12:1)
- ἵνα δὲ εὐπαρακολούθητοσ ὁ λόγοσ σοι γένηται, προθεὶσ κατὰ λέξιν, ὅσα περὶ τοῦ συγγραφέωσ τυγχάνω προειρηκώσ, ἐπιτροχάδην ἀναλήψομαι τῶν προθέσεων ἑκάστην καὶ τὰσ ἀποδείξεισ παρέξομαι, καθάπερ ἠξίουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 21)
- προθεὶσ γὰρ τόπον ἐνθυμημάτων τὸν ἐκ τῶν πρὸσ ἄλληλα, ταῦτα κατὰ λέξιν γράφει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 12 1:4)
- ἐπεὶ δέ ποτε καὶ χρυσοῦν δακτύλιον ὁδῷ βαδίζων εὑρ͂εν, γραμματεῖον ἐν ἀγορᾷ προθεὶσ ἠξίου τὸν ἀπολέσαντα, ὅστισ εἰή τοῦ δακτυλίου δεσπότησ, ἥκειν καὶ εἰπόντα ὁλκὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ λίθον καὶ τύπον ἀπολαμβάνειν· (Lucian, (no name) 17:1)
- ἢ ὁ Κηφεὺσ καθάπερ δέλεαρ προθεὶσ τὴν κόρην ἀπέκτεινεν ἐπιών, λοχήσασ μετὰ πολλῆσ δυνάμεωσ; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 1 1:2)
- ὁ δὲ ἔλεγχοσ, Παρρησιάδη, τοιόσδε ἔστω, οἱο͂σ ὁ τῶν ἀετῶν πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον εἶναι λέγεται, οὐ μὰ Δί’ ὥστε κἀκείνουσ ἀντιβλέπειν τῷ φωτὶ καὶ πρὸσ ἐκεῖνο δοκιμάζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ προθεὶσ χρυσίον καὶ δόξαν καὶ ἡδονὴν ὃν μὲν ἂν αὐτῶν ἴδῃσ ὑπερορῶντα καὶ μηδαμῶσ ἑλκόμενον πρὸσ τὴν ὄψιν, οὗτοσ ἔστω ὁ τῷ θαλλῷ στεφόμενοσ, ὃν δ’ ἂν ἀτενὲσ ἀποβλέποντα καὶ τὴν χεῖρα ὀρέγοντα ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον, ἀπάγειν ἐπὶ τὸ καυτήριον τοῦτον ἀποκείρασ ^ πρότερον τὸν πώγωνα ὡσ ἔδοξεν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 46:5)
Synonyms
-
to run before
-
to run forward or forth
-
to outrun
Derived
- ἀμφιθέω (to run round about)
- ἀντιθέω (to run against, compete in a race, to run contrary ways)
- ἀπιθέω (he disobeyed)
- ἀποθέω (to run away)
- διαθέω (to run about, to run a race, with or against)
- διεκθέω (to run through)
- εἰσθέω (to run into, run up)
- ἐκθέω (to run out, make a sally)
- ἐπιθέω (to run at or after)
- θέω (I run , I fly)
- καταθέω (to run down, to run into port, to make inroads)
- μεταθέω (to run after, chase, to hunt or range over)
- παραθέω (to run beside or alongside, to run beyond, outrun)
- περιθέω (to run round, to run about, to rotate)
- προεκθέω (to run out before, sally from the ranks, rush on)
- προκαταθέω (to run down before)
- προσθέω (to run towards or to)
- συνθέω (to run together with, will, run smoothly)
- ὑπεκθέω (to run off secretly or gradually)
- ὑπερθέω (to run beyond, to double, to outstrip)
- ὑποθέω (to run in under, make a secret attack, to run in before)
