πρόσωπον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό: pl. [[πρόσωπα]], Ep. (Aeol.acc. to Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.7.212</span>) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> προσώπατα <span class="bibl">Od.18.192</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>5.230 (Maced.), <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">C.</span>1.419</span>, etc.; dat. προσώπασι <span class="bibl">Il.7.212</span>: a masc. nom. [[πρόσωπος]] is cited from <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.250</span>:— [[face]], [[countenance]] (cf. [[μέτωπον]]), Hom., always in plural, even of a single person, <span class="bibl">Il.7.212</span>, <span class="bibl">18.414</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.19.361</span>, al. (exc. <span class="bibl">Il.18.24</span>), and so in <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Op.</span>594</span> (v.l. [[-πον]]), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>871.6</span>(v.infr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">El.</span>1277</span>(lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>314</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span> 2.6.11</span>(dub.), <span class="title">AP</span>9.322 (Leon.): sg. in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Hom.</span>10.2</span>,<span class="bibl">31.12</span>, and usually in later writers; π. κλιθὲν προσώπῳ <span class="bibl">Simon.37.12</span>; εἰς π. βλέπειν <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">Hipp.</span>280</span>; <b class="b3">ἐς π. τινὸς ἀφικέσθαι</b> come before him, ib.<span class="bibl">720</span>; π. πρός τινα στρέφειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>457</span>; οὐκ ὄψεσθε τὸ π. μου <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ge.</span>43.3</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span> 70.5</span> (ii B.C.); <b class="b3">κατὰ πρόσωπον</b> [[in front]], [[facing]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.106</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.6.43</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τὴν κατὰ π. τῆς ἀντίας φάλαγγος τάξιν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">6.3.35</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ π. Αἰγύπτου</b> [[facing]], [[fronting]] Egypt, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>25.18</span>; opp. <b class="b3">κατὰ νώτου</b>, <span class="bibl">Plb. 1.28.9</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ π. ἄγειν</b>, opp. <b class="b3">κατὰ κέρας ὑπεραίρειν</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.11.14.6</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">κατὰ π</b>. [[in person]], ἡ κατὰ π. ἔντευξις <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Caes.</span>17</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ π. παραμυθήσασθαι</b>, opp. <b class="b3">διὰ τοῦ ψαφίσματος</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).86.22 (Epid.); so κατὰ πρόσωπα <span class="bibl">Eudox.<span class="title">Ars</span>11.21</span>; also <b class="b3">πρὸς τὸ π</b>. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>10.9</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ προσώπου Ἰεριχώ</b> in [[front]] of Jericho, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">De.</span>34.1</span>; ἔρρ' ἐκ προσώπου <span class="bibl">Herod. 8.59</span>; ἀπὸ π. τῆς γῆς <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Am.</span>9.8</span>; <b class="b3">βλέπειν εἰς π. τινός</b> regard his [[countenance]], Ev.Matt.22.16: usually of the face of man or God, as λειτουργῶν τῷ π. Κυρίου <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ki.</span>2.11</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ ἄρτοι τοῦ π</b>., of showbread, ib.<span class="bibl">21.6</span>: of the ibis, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.76</span>; of dogs, ἀπὸ τῶν π. φαιδραί <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>4.2</span>; of horses, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>631a5</span>; of deer, ib.<span class="bibl">579a2</span>; of fish, <span class="bibl">Anaxandr. 30</span>,<span class="bibl">33.16</span>; [[face]] of the moon, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>871.6</span> (pl.), Plu.2.920b: metaph., ἀργυρωθεῖσαι πρόσωπα . . ἀοιδαί <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>2.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[front]], [[façade]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">P.</span>6.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 189</span> (lyr., pl.); <b class="b3">κατὰ π. τοῦ ἱεροῦ, τῆς νεώς</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.2</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Ach.Tat.3.1</span>,<span class="bibl">2</span>; τιθέναι τὰς φιάλας ἐπὶ πρόσωπον Asclep.Myrl. ap.<span class="bibl">Ath.11.501d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">one's look, countenance</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>639</span>,<span class="bibl">794</span> (anap., pl.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eu.</span>990</span> (anap., pl.), etc.; <b class="b3">οὐ τὸ σὸν δείσας π</b>. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>448</span>: metaph., φαίνοισα π. Ἀλάθεια <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>5.17</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> Astrol., decan considered as the [[domain]] of a planet, <b class="b3">ἐν ἰδίοις π</b>. <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.62.21</span>, Paul. Al.<span class="title">C.</span>2. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> = [[προσωπεῖον]], [[mask]], <span class="bibl">D.19.287</span> (<b class="b3">-εῖον</b> is v.l.), <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Po.</span>1449a36</span>, <span class="bibl">b4</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>958a17</span>, Dsc.3.144 (v.l.), <span class="bibl">Poll.2.47</span>; π. ὑπάργυρον κατάχρυσον <span class="title">IG</span>12.276.6, cf. 42(1).102.58,68 (Epid., iv B.C.), <span class="title">Clara Rhodos</span> 6/7.428; <b class="b3">ὀθόνινον π</b>. prob. in <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.142</span>; π. περίθετον <span class="bibl">Aristomen.5</span>; of the Roman [[imagines]], <span class="bibl">Plb.6.53.5</span>; [[bust]] or [[portrait]], Sammelb.5221, <span class="title">OGI</span>432.1 (Naksh-i-Rustam, iii A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[dramatic part]], [[character]], Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.199S., <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>1.29.45</span> and <span class="bibl">57</span>; <b class="b3">κωφὸν π</b>. <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Att.</span>13.19.3</span>; [[character]] in a book, <b class="b3">τὸ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ὄνομα καὶ π</b>. <span class="bibl">Plb.8.11.5</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως π</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.12.27.10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Po.</span>5.32</span>; also <b class="b3">ἀστοχεῖν τοῦ π</b>., of an author, Callisth.<span class="bibl">44J.</span>; ἐπὶ προσχήματι καὶ π. δικαστῶν <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">Fr.</span>168</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[person]], Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.52S. (pl.); ἀδίκως μὴ κρῖνε πρόσωπον <span class="bibl">Ps.-Phoc.10</span>; <b class="b3">προσώπῳ, οὐ καρδίᾳ</b> [[in person]], [[in bodily presence]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Thess.</span>2.17</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">2 Ep.Cor.</span>5.12</span>; [[ποιεῖν]] or <b class="b3">πληροῦν τὸ π. τινός</b> to represent a [[person]], PRein.56.30 (iv A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sammelb.</span> 6000ii 12</span> (vi A.D.); <b class="b3">λαμβάνειν π. τινός</b> admit a [[person]] to one's presence, εἰ προσδέξεταί σε, εἰ λήψεται πρόσωπόν σου <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ma.</span>1.8</span>; hence, = [[προσωποληπτεῖν]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>20.21</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Gal.</span>2.6</span>; <b class="b3">μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ π. μου</b>, i.e. do not reject my prayer, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ki.</span>2.20</span>; <b class="b3">θαυμάσαι π. ἀσεβοῦς</b> ib.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>18.5</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ θεὸς ὁ μέγας... ὅστις οὐ θαυμάζει π. οὐδὲ οὐ μὴ λάβῃ δῶρον</b> ib.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">De.</span>10.17</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[legal personality]], Bion Borysth. ap. <span class="bibl">D.L.4.46</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> Gramm., [[person]], <span class="bibl">D.T.638.4</span>,<span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Pron.</span>3.12</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">γυναικεῖα π</b>. <span class="bibl">Alex.Trall.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">π. πόλεως</b> a [[feature]] of the city, of a person, <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Fam.</span>15.17.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> f.l.in Zeno Stoic.1.23 (cf.<span class="bibl">Nicol.<span class="title">Prog.</span>p.4</span> F.).</span>