προτομή
ἰχθύς ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὄζειν ἄρχεται → the fish stinks from the head, a fish rots from the head down, the fish rots from the head down, fish begin to stink at the head, the fish stinks first at the head, corruption starts at the top, the rot starts at the top
English (LSJ)
ἡ, (προτέμνω)
A front part cut off: esp., 1 head and face of a decapitated animal (rarely of a decapitated man, LXX 2 Ma. 15.35, and of a boar with human head, Ps.-Plu.Fluv.21.4), γλαύκου Antiph.132.4; γρυπός IG12.280.15; λέοντος Inscr.Deélos 442 B 108 (ii B.C.); ἐλάφου OGI214.41 (Didyma, iii B.C.); λύκου D.S.1.18; λεόντων, ταύρων, δρακόντων, ib.62; Κερβέρου ib.96; Γοργόνος Corn. ND20; χηνίσκων Orib.49.4.28; of a dolphin as figurehead, AP7.215 (Anyt.); π. ἵππου, name of the asterism Eculeus, Gem.3.8, Ptol.Alm.7.5. 2 cup in shape of animal's face, Philox.5, IG 11(2).287B34, 134 (Delos, iii B.C.). 3 bust, ib.14.1518; αἱ π. τοῦ Καίσαρος the imagines or busts of the Emperor on the Roman standards, J.AJ18.3.1, cf. IG22.1108.6, Ostr.178 (ii A.D.), al.; π. τῆς ἀρχῆς Lyd.Mag.3.21.
