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προαναφώνησις

From LSJ

Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: proanaphṓnēsis Transliteration B: proanaphōnēsis Transliteration C: proanafonisis Beta Code: proanafw/nhsis

English (LSJ)

-εως, ἡ,
A previous proclamation, μετὰ κήρυκος π. Posidon.36 J.
2 statement by anticipation, Ps.-Plu.Vit.Hom. 65, Trypho Trop.2.12, Hdn.Fig.p.103S.
II preface, proëm, Hld. 8.17.

German (Pape)

[Seite 707] ἡ, vorhergehender Aufruf, Ankündigung; κήρυκος, Ath. V, 212 c; Sp.; auch Weissagung, Clem. Al. 1, 19; Prolog, Heliod. 8, 17 E.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

προᾰνᾰφώνησις: εως ἡ рит. вступление, пролог.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

προαναφώνησις: ἡ, προτέρα ἀναφώνησις, μετὰ κήρυκος προαναφωνήσεως Ἀθήν. 212Ε. ΙΙ. πρόλογος, προοίμιον, Ἡλιόδ. 8. 17, Ρήτορες (Walz) 8. 608, κτλ.

Greek Monolingual

-ήσεως, ἡ, Α προαναφωνῶ
1. προκήρυξη, προειδοποίηση
2. προκαταβολική διήγηση
3. πρόλογος, προοίμιο.