πρῶρα

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μή μοι θεοὺς καλοῦσα βουλεύου κακῶς· πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ, γυνὴ Σωτῆρος· ὦδ᾽ ἔχει λόγος → When you invoke the gods, do not be ill-advised. For Obedience is the mother of Success, wife of Salvation—as the saying goes.

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German (Pape)

[Seite 803] ἡ, ion. u. ep. πρώρη; nach E. M. πρῷρα zu schreiben, wie es sich auch in mss. findet, vgl. Poppo ad Thuc. 7, 34, 5; auch πρώρα betont (πρό, nicht von προοράω); das vordere Ende des Schiffes, Schiffsvordertheil; νηῦς πρώρη, Od. 12, 230; Aesch. Spt. 130; πάροιθεν πρώρας, Ch. 385; ἐπειδὰν πνεῦμα τοὐκ πρώρας ἀνῇ, Soph. Phil. 635, d. i. der widrige Wind; Μαλέᾳ προσίσχων πρῶραν, Eur. Or. 362; auch übertr., βιότου, Troad. 103; κυανέμβολος, Ar. Ran. 1314; Her. 1, 194 u. oft, wie in attischer Prosa; ποιεῖν ἐν πρώρᾳ τὰ σκάφη, Pol. 16, 4, 12. Übh. die Vorderseite, ἀμπέλου, Theophr.

English (Strong)

feminine of a presumed derivative of πρό as noun; the prow, i.e. forward part of a vessel: forepart(-ship).