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|lshtext=<b>prŏoemĭum</b>: ii, n., = [[προοίμιον]].<br /><b>I</b> An [[introduction]], [[preface]], [[proem]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[exordium]], [[principium]]): [[quod]] [[principium]] Latine vel [[exordium]] dicitur, majore quădam ratione [[Graeci]] videntur [[προοίμιον]] nominasse: [[quia]] a nostris [[initium]] [[modo]] significatur, [[illi]] [[satis]] [[clare]] partem hanc esse [[ante]] ingressum rei, de quă dicendum [[sit]], ostendunt ..[[certe]] [[prooemium]] est, [[quod]] [[apud]] judicem, priusquam causam cognoverit, prosit, Quint. 4, 1, 1; cf. id. 4, 1, 53; 2, 13, 1; 3, 9, 1; 3, 11, 28 et saep.: citharoedi [[prooemium]], [[prelude]], Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 325: longo et [[alte]] petito prooemio respondere, id. Clu. 21, 58' [[volumen]] prooemiorum . .prooemio abuti [[prooemium]] exarare, desecare, agglutinare, id. Att. 16, 6, 4: legis [[prooemium]], id. Leg. 2, 7, 16.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen., a [[beginning]] ([[poet]].): rixae, Juv 3, 288.