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|mdlsjtxt=adv.<br />formed with a [[comparative]] [[force]] from πρό:<br />A. adv. of [[Time]], [[before]],<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of [[future]] [[time]], [[before]] that [[time]], [[sooner]], with fut. Ind. or Subj. = fut., Hom.: with Opt. and κεν, Od.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of [[past]] [[time]], aforetime, [[formerly]], [[once]], [[erst]], Hom.; so with the Art., τὸ [[πρίν]] γε… , νῦν δὲ… ; νῦν δὲ… τὸ [[πρίν]] γε Il.:—with the Art. the Part. ὤν is omitted, τὰ πρὶν πελώρια (sc. ὄντἀ the giants of old, Aesch.; ἐν τῷ πρὶν χρόνῳ Soph.; ἐν τοῖς πρὶν λόγοις Thuc.<br />B. πρὶν ἤ, as Conjunction, [[before]] that, [[before]], ere, [[priusquam]], Hom.; but ἤ is often omitted, so that [[πρίν]] becomes a Conjunction: the [[antecedent]] [[clause]] also has [[πρίν]] (or [[πρότερον]], [[πρόσθεν]], πάροσ), so that [[πρίν]] the Conjunction is relat. to [[πρίν]] the adv., [[especially]] [[after]] a negat.:—it is constructed with Inf., ναῖε δὲ Πήδαιον, πρὶν [[ἐλθεῖν]] υἷας Ἀχαιῶν Il.; οὐδὲ παύσεται χόλου, πρὶν κατασκῆψαί τινα Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> with a [[finite]] Verb:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> with Ind., in [[which]] [[case]] Hom. uses [[πρίν]] γ' ὅτε, [[πρίν]] γ' ὅτε δή, [[until]], [[μάχη]] [[τέτατο]], [[πρίν]] γ' ὅτε δὴ [[Ζεὺς]] [[κῦδος]] Ἕκτορι δῶκε Il.; so, οὐκ ἦν ἀλέξημ' [[οὐδέν]], [[πρίν]] γ' ἐγὼ [[σφίσιν]] [[ἔδειξα]] Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with Subj. only [[after]] negatives or equiv. of neg., οὐ καταδυσόμεθ', πρὶν μόρσιμον [[ἦμαρ]] ἐπέλθῃ we [[will]] not go [[down]], [[till]] the day of [[death]] [[come]] on, Od.;—in [[attic]] πρὶν ἄν is [[regular]], [[οὐδέν]] ἐστι [[τέρμα]] μοι μόχθων, πρὶν ἂν [[Ζεὺς]] ἐκπέσῃ τυραννίδος Aesch.; but ἄν is [[sometimes]] omitted, μὴ στέναζε, πρὶν μάθῃς Soph.; as [[always]] with πρὶν ἤ, πρὶν ἢ ἀνορθώσωσι Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> with Opt., [[after]] historical tenses, οὐκ ἔθελεν φεύγειν πρὶν πειρήσαιτ' Ἀχιλῆος Il.; ἔδοξέ μοι μὴ ποιεῖσθαι, πρὶν φράσαιμί σοι Soph.

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