prologus
From LSJ
Ἥδιστόν ἐστιν τῶν ὑπαρχόντων κρατεῖν → Opes tenere, non teneri opibus iuvat → Am besten hast du jede Lage fest im Griff | Am liebsten Herr sein über das Vorhandene
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
prolŏgus: i, m., = πρόλογος>.
I Lit., a preface or introduction to a play, a prologue, Ter. Phorm. prol. 14: in prologis scribundis operā abutitur, id. And. prol. 5: in Hydriae (Menandri) prologo, Quint. 11, 3, 91: in prologo Adelphorum, Suet. Vit. Ter. 2.—
II Transf., the player who delivers the prologue: oratorem esse voluit me, non prologum, Ter. Heaut. prol. 11; id. Hec. prol. alt. 1 (prō-, v. Wagn. ad Ter. Heaut. prol. 11).
