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|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [[cut one's way forward]], only metaph., <b class="b3">π. διὰ τῆς λεωφόρου</b> [[advance]] by the high-road, Anon. ap. Suid.: c. acc. cogn., τὴν ὁδὸν προκεκοφέναι J.''AJ''2.6.7: without <b class="b3">ὁδόν, ἐπὶ πολὺ προκεκοφότες</b> ib. 2.16.3; π. τριάκοντα σταδίους Chio ''Ep.''4.2:—Pass. in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]], [[advance]], [[prosper]], ἀνωτέρω ὀδὲν τῶν πρηγμάτων προκοπτομένων 1.190; ἐς τὸ πρόσω οὐδὲν προεκόπτετο τῶν πρηγμάτων 3.56.<br><span class="bld">II</span> with neut. Adjs., <b class="b3">προκόψομεν οὐδέν</b> [[shall make]] no [[progress]], [[advance]] not at all. Alc.35; <b class="b3">τὰ πολλὰ προκόψασ'</b> [[having prepared]] most of [[the way]], E. ''Hipp.''23; <b class="b3">τί ἂν προκόπτοις</b>; what good would you get? Id.''Alc.''1079; <b class="b3">οὐδὲν προὔκοπτον εἰς.</b>. [[they made]] no [[progress]] towards... X.''HG''7.1.6; π. οὐδὲν ἐς πρόσθεν E.''Hec.''961; ἐν παιδείᾳ προκεκοφότες D.S.17.69; π. ἐν Ἰουδαϊσμῷ ''Ep.Gal.''1.14; ἐν τοῖς μαθήμασι Luc.''Herm.''63: c. dat. modi, τοῖς πλούτοις -κεκοφότες D.S.34/5.2.26; σοφίᾳ καὶ ἡλικίᾳ ''Ev.Luc.''2.52.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. gen. rei, <b class="b3">τοῦ ναυτικοῦ μέγα μέρος προκόψαντες</b> [[having made improvements]] in their navy to a great extent, Th.7.56; [[ἡμῶν]] <b class="b3">προκοπτόντων τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐκείνοις</b> [[since]] we [[promote the increase of]] their empire, Id.4.60; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ πλεῖον π. ἀσεβείας</b> [[having advanced]] further in impiety, ''2 Ep.Ti.''2.16: abs., ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο π. Plb.31.23.2; ἐπὶ πλεῖον π. D.S.14.98.<br><span class="bld">3</span> especially in Philos., of moreal and intellectual progress, Zeno Stoic.1.56, Chrysipp.ib.2.337, Plu.2.543e, Arr.''Epict.''1.4.1,3.2.5, etc.; κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν π. Phld.''Mort.''17; ὁ λόγος π. S.E.''P.''2.240; <b class="b3">προκοπτούσης τῆς θεραπείας</b> if the treatment [[succeeds]], Asclep. ap. Gal. 12.413, cf. Herod.Med. in ''Rh.Mus.''58.103; <b class="b3">εἴωθε προκόπτειν ἡ… ἀγωγή</b> the treatment is usually [[successful]], Heliod. ap. Orib.46.9.1; <b class="b3">-κεκοφυίας τῆς νόσου</b> as the disease [[improves]], Herod.Med. ap. Aët.9.13.<br><span class="bld">b</span> of [[time]], <b class="b3">προκοπτούσης ὁδοῦ</b> [[as]] the journey [[advanced]], Babr. 111.4; ἡ νὺξ προέκοψεν [[is far spent]], Ep.Rom. 13.12, cf. J.''BJ''4.4.6; to [[be advanced]] in years, τῇ ἡλικίᾳ ''SIG''708.18 (Istropolis, ii B.C.); ὁ μὲν -κέκοφεν, ὁ δὲ νέος ἐστίν Herm.''in Phdr.''p.60 A.