πρόναος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or [[προναῖος]], α, ον, Ion. [[προνήϊος]], η, ον, Att. πρόνεως: ([[ναός]]):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[before a temple]], βωμοὺς προνάους A.''Supp.''494: especially of gods [[whose statues stood before the temple]], <b class="b3">Ἀθηνᾶ καὶ Ἑρμῆς πρόναοι</b> at Thebes, Paus.9.10.2; [[πρόνεως]], [[epithet]] of Poseidon, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; freq. of Athena at Delphi, because she had a chapel or statue there [[before the great temple]] of [[Apollo]], κατὰ τὸ ἱρὸν τῆς Προνηΐης Ἀθηναίης Hdt.8.37, cf. 39; ἐν δὲ Προνηΐης τῆς ἐν Δελφοῖσι Id.1.92; Παλλὰς προναία A.''Eu.''21; <b class="b3">ἐναγὴς ἔστω τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος.. καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς Προναίας</b> Decr. Amphict. ap. Aeschin.3.110 ([[Προνοίας]] codd., so also in 108, al., but cf. Harp.); χἡ Παλλάς, Δελφοί νιν ὅθ' ἱδρύοντο προναίην Call.''Fr.''220; Ἀθηνᾷ Προναίᾳ ''SIG''324 (Delph., iv B.C.), cf. ''Schwyzer'' 323''D''35 (ibid., iv B.C.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> Subst. <b class="b3">πρόναος, ὁ,</b> [[front hall]] of a temple, through which one passed to the [[ναός]], ''BMus.Inscr.'' 481*.272,283 (Ephesus, ii A.D.); Ion. [[πρόνηος]] Luc.''Syr.D.''30; Att. dat. written προνεοι ''IG''12.237.58, προνειοι ib.232.6 (prob. to be understood as [[πρόνεῳ]] and [[πρόνειῳ]]); Ion. gen. προνηΐου Hdt.1.51: pl. [[προνήϊα]], as adverb, [[before the temple]], AP6.281 (Leon.): also neut. πρόναον, τό, Str.17.1.28, Ph.2.150, 236, Paus.8.32.2 codd., ''OGI''661 (Egypt, i A.D.), 702 (ibid., ii A.D.), ''Ath.Mitt.'' 35.442 (Pergam., ii A.D.), ''Milet.'' 1(7) No.200 (iii A.D.), ''Ephes.''2 No.42 (iii A.D.), ''IGRom.''4.556 (Ancyra): gender uncertain in προνάοις D.S.14.41; προνάϊον, ''IG''5(2).515 ''Ba'' (Lycosura, i B.C. i A.D.), 520 (ibid., ii A.D.), 7.225 (Aegosthena), J.''AJ''8.3.2 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[πρόναον]]); προνάειν, ''Jahresh.'' 15 ''Beibl.''106 (Dionysopolis, iii A.D.). (The forms [[Προναια]], [[προναιην]], [[pronaion]] should perhaps be understood as [[Προνᾴα]], [[προνᾴην]], [[πρόνᾳον]]: the word is trisyll. in A. and Call. ll. cc.)