προδείκνυμι
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English (LSJ)
(προδεικνύω Hdt.1.209, 7.37), 3sg. προδίκνυτι [δῐ] Epigr. in GDI5112 (Crete): Ion.aor. -έδεξα (v. infr.):—
A show by example, by doing something first, προδέξαντες σχῆμα, οἷόν τι ἔμελλε εὐπρεπέστατον φανέεσθαι ἔχουσα Hdt.1.60; τὸν ζωστῆρα προδέξας having shown [the way of] the girdle, Id.4.10. 2 abs., tell first, A.Pr.779, S.OT624. II foreshow what is about to happen, πάντα τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα Hdt.1.209; Ἕλλησι π. ὁ θεὸς ἔκλειψιν τῶν πολίων Id.7.37, cf. 6.27; προφαίνει καρπὸν . . μέχρι τοῦ προδεῖξαι μόνον Thphr.CP1.13.10: c. acc. et inf., make known beforehand that... Th.3.47; π. ὅτι . . Plu.Phoc.28; προδεδειγμένου it having been already shown, A.D Synt. 336.16. III point before one, σκήπτρῳ π. γαῖαν, of a blind man, S.OT456; π. τὸ τόξον put it out before one, Luc.Herc.1, cf.Herm.68; π. δελεάσματα hold out baits, Them.Or.22.271c; π. χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς ib.7.91c. 2 as a technical term of pugilists, χερσὶ π. make feints with the hands, Theoc.22.102; also in war, X.Eq.Mag.8.24; π. τινὰς ἐπιβολάς Plb.2.66.2; of the cuttle-fish, π. εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν Arist. HA621b34.
