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|txtha=(according to [[Curtius]], § 380 comparitive προιον, προιν, [[πρίν]])), as in Greek writings from Homer down:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> an adverb [[previously]], [[formerly]] (cf. [[πάλαι]], 1): [[before]], [[before]] [[that]]: [[with]] an accusative and aorist infinitive of things [[past]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 44,6 at the [[end]]; Buttmann, § 142,3); [[πρίν]] [[Ἀβραάμ]] [[γενέσθαι]], [[before]] Abraham existed, came [[into]] [[being]], [[πρίν]] ἤ (cf. Meyer on Winer's Grammar, 332 (311)): [[πρίν]] ἀλέκτορα φωνῆσαι, [[before]] the [[cock]] shall [[have]] crowed, [[πρίν]] ἤ, L T Tr WH [[text]] [[omit]] ἤ); [[πρίν]] ἤ, preceded by a [[negative]] [[sentence]] (Buttmann, § 139,35), [[with]] the aorist subjunctive having the [[force]] of a [[future]] [[perfect]] in Latin (Buttmann, 231 (199)), R G L T Tr marginal [[reading]], [[but]] WH brackets ἤ), and R G in [[πρίν]] ἤ, followed by the optative of a [[thing]] as entertained in [[thought]], Winer's Grammar, 297 (279); Buttmann, 230 (198)). Cf. Matthiae, § 522,2, p. 1201 f; [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 139,41; Klotz ad Devar. ii. 2, p. 720ff; Winer's Grammar (and Buttmann), as [[above]].