preliminary
ἀλλ’ οὔτε πολλὰ τραύματ’ ἐν στέρνοις λαβὼν θνῄσκει τις, εἰ μὴ τέρμα συντρέχοι βίου, οὔτ’ ἐν στέγῃ τις ἥμενος παρ’ ἑστίᾳ φεύγει τι μᾶλλον τὸν πεπρωμένον μόρον → But a man will not die, even though he has been wounded repeatedly in the chest, should the appointed end of his life not have caught up with him; nor can one who sits beside his hearth at home escape his destined death any the more
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
a preliminary examination before a magistrate: P. ἀνάκρισις, ἡ.
preliminary decree: P. προβούλευμα, τό.
preliminary remarks: P. and V. προοίμιον, τό, V. φροίμιον, τό.
mention as a preliminary, v.: P. and V. ὑπειπεῖν (2nd aor.).
they find most of the preliminaries already compleled by their partisans: P. καταλαμβάνουσι τὰ πλεῖστα τοῖς ἑταίροις προειργασμένα (Thuc. 8, 65).
