ἔμπροσθεν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=sts. also ἔμπροσθε <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.62</span>, <span class="bibl">7.144</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Isoc.<span class="title">Ep.</span>4.10</span>, in Poets metri gr., <span class="bibl">Hegesipp.Com.1.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Nicom.Com. 1.14</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.4.590</span>: neither form in Hom. or Trag., [[τοὔμπροσθεν]] dub. in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>1228</span>. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> Adv., </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> of Place, [[before]], [[in front]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.126</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.2.23</span>; τὸ and <b class="b3">τὰ ἔ</b>. [[the front]], [[the foreside]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HG</span>2.3.55</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.62</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">εἰς τὸ ἔ</b>. [[forwards]], <span class="bibl">Id.4.61</span>; <b class="b3">στὰς ἐκ τοῦ ἔ</b>. [[in front]], [[opposite]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.2.6</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">εἰστοὔμπ. προελθεῖν</b> Isoc.l.c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of Time, [[before]], [[of old]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>277d</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τὰ ἔ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Grg.</span>448e</span>; τὰ ἔ. τούτων ῥηθέντα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>773e</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ ἔ</b>. our [[ancestors]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Plt.</span>296a</span>, Hegesipp. l.c.; οἱ ἔ. Χρόνοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.19</span> (iii B. C.), etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as Prep. c. gen., [[before]], [[in front of]], </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> of Place, <b class="b3">ἐ. αὐτῆς</b> (sc. <b class="b3">τῆς νηός</b>) <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.87</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">2.110</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of Time, <b class="b3">ἔ. ταύτης</b> (sc. <b class="b3">τῆς γνώμης</b>) <span class="bibl">Id.7.144</span>; <b class="b3">ἔ. εἶναι τῶν πραγμάτων</b> to be [[beforehand with]] events, <span class="bibl">D.4.39</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of Degree, <b class="b3">ἔ. τοῦ δικαίου</b> [[preferred before]] justice, <span class="bibl">Id.56.50</span>.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=<i>adverb</i><i>adverb</i><br /><b class="num">I.</b> adv.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of Place, [[before]], in [[front]], Hdt., Xen.: τὸ and τὰ [[ἔμπροσθεν]] the [[front]], [[fore]]-[[side]], Hdt., etc.; εἰς τὸ ἔμπ. forwards, Hdt.; ἐκ τοῦ ἔμπρ. [[opposite]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of [[time]], [[before]], earlier, of old, Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> as prep. with gen. [[before]], in [[front]] of:<br />i. of Place, ἐμπρ. αὐτῆς (sc. τῆς νηόσ) Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of [[time]], ἔμπρ. [[ταύτης]] (sc. τῆς γνώμησ) Hdt.