προπετής: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[προπετής]], ές [[προπεσεῖν]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> falling forwards, inclined [[forward]], Lat. [[proclivis]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> thrown [[away]], κεῖται προπετές [τὸ [[κάταγμα]] Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[drooping]], at the [[point]] of [[death]], Soph.; cf. [[προνωπής]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> metaph.,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[being]] [[upon]] the [[point]] of, πρ. ἐπὶ πολιὰς χαίτας Eur.; τύμβου πρ. [[παρθένος]] Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[ready]] for, [[prone]] to a [[thing]], ἐπί or εἴς τι Xen.; πρός τι Plat.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[headlong]], [[precipitate]], [[rash]], [[reckless]], [[violent]], Aeschin., ; ἡ πρ. [[ἀκρασία]] Arist.; of a lot, [[drawn]] at [[random]], Pind.:—of persons, οἱ θρασεῖς προπετεῖς Arist.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> adv. -τῶς, forwards, Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[headlong]] [[hastily]], Xen., etc.; πρ. ἔχειν to be [[rash]], Xen.