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πρόσκοπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσκοπος πρόσκοπον

Structure: προσκοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. seeing beforehand, an outpost, vidette, a reconnoitring party

Examples

  • ἐκ τούτου δὲ ἀριστοποιεῖσθαι καὶ ταχὺ τὸν πρόσκοπον ἀπολύεσθαι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 7:3)
  • προεισπέμψασ οὖν ὁ Κῦροσ προσκόπουσ καὶ δύναμιν καὶ αὐτὸσ οὕτωσ εἰσῄει. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 7:3)

Derived

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

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