προοίμιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Trag. contr. [[φροίμιον]] (v. infr.): ([[οἶμος]]):—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[opening]], [[introduction]]; in Music, [[prelude]], [[overture]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>1.4</span>; in Ep. poems, [[proëm]], [[preamble]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">N.</span>2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1343</span>; in speeches, [[exordium]], <span class="bibl">Critias 43</span> tit., <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Rh.</span>1414b19</span>, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.56S., <span class="title">Stoic.</span>2.96, etc.; [[προοιμίοις ἡδονῆς]] = with [[preface]]s about [[pleasure]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.1.27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of any [[prelude]] or [[beginning]], φροίμιον χορεύσομαι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>31</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">829</span>; φροιμίοις &lt;δυσφροιμίοις&gt; ib. <span class="bibl">1216</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>7</span>; λόγους… μηδέπω 'ν προοιμίοις = [[only]] [[just]] [[beginning]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>741</span>; [[εἴ τι τοῦδε φροιμίου ματᾷ]] = whether that [[dream]]-[[prophecy]] was [[wide of the mark]] at all, any part of this [[presage]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span> 142</span>; ὁρῶ τάδε φροίμια… πόνων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>830</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>568</span>, <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Mem.</span>4.2.3</span>; ἐγχέων π. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>78</span>; π. δείπνου <span class="bibl">Alex.110.3</span>; π. ἔχθρας <span class="bibl">Plb.22.4.15</span>; ἀρχῆς <span class="bibl">Id.25.3.8</span> (pl.); δάκρυά μοι τὰ π. τῆς τέχνης <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Somn.</span>3</span>; of [[premonitory]] [[symptom]]s of [[disease]], <span class="bibl">Orib.<span class="title">Syn.</span>8.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[hymn]] or [[short]] [[poem]], such as those attributed to [[Homer]], Ἀπόλλωνος <span class="bibl">Th.3.104</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>60d</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>531d</span>; [[φροίμιον]] Ἀντιλόχου (fort. Ἀρχιλόχου) <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>223</span>.</span>