προφερής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=προφερές, ([[προφέρω]]) ''poet.'' Adj.,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[carried before]], [[placed before]], [[excelling]], c. gen., ἀλλάων προφερής τ' ἦν πρεσβυτάτη τε Hes.''Sc.''260: Hom. only Comp. (exc. Sup., ἅλματι.. πάντων προφερέστατος Od.8.128), [[more excellent]], τῶν δ' ἄλλων ἐμέ φημι πολὺ προφερέστερον εἶναι Od.8.221: c. dat. rei, βίῃ προφερέστερος 21.134: c. inf., [ἡμίονοι] βοῶν προφερέστεραί εἰσιν ἑλκέμεναι Il.10.352: Sup., προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων Hes.''Th.''79,361 (where it is commonly interpreted [[eldest]]); ἀνὴρ προφερέστατος ἀνδρῶν ''IG''14.935, cf. Theoc.17.4; <b class="b3">ἡνιόχων π.</b> ''IG''14.1628, cf. ''Epigr.Gr.''435 (Trachonitis); also Comp. and Sup., [[προφέρτερος]], [[προφέρτατος]] in the sense of [[older]], [[eldest]], S.''Fr.''447, ''OC'' 1531.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[looking older than one is]], [[well-grown]], Pl.''Euthd.''271b, cf. Aeschin.1.49; of plants and young persons, [[forced]], [[premature]], [[precocious]], <b class="b3">τὰ π.</b> Aristox. ap. Stob.4.37.4, cf. Iamb.''VP''31.209.