προφερής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ές, (προφέρω) poet. Adj., <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">carried before, placed before, excelling</b>, c. gen., ἀλλάων προφερής τ' ἦν πρεσβυτάτη τε <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>260</span>: Hom. only Comp. (exc. Sup., ἅλματι . . πάντων προφερέστατος <span class="bibl">Od.8.128</span>), <b class="b2">more excellent</b>, τῶν δ' ἄλλων ἐμέ φημι πολὺ προφερέστερον εἶναι <span class="bibl">Od.8.221</span>: c. dat. rei, βίῃ προφερέστερος <span class="bibl">21.134</span>: c. inf., [ἡμίονοι] βοῶν προφερέστεραί εἰσιν ἑλκέμεναι <span class="bibl">Il.10.352</span>: Sup., προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>79</span>,<span class="bibl">361</span> (where it is commonly interpreted <b class="b2">eldest</b>); ἀνὴρ προφερέστατος ἀνδρῶν <span class="title">IG</span>14.935, cf. <span class="bibl">Theoc.17.4</span>; <b class="b3">ἡνιόχων π</b>. <span class="title">IG</span>14.1628, cf. <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>435 (Trachonitis); also Comp. and Sup., <b class="b3">προφέρτερος, προφέρτατος</b> in the sense of <b class="b2">older, eldest</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>447</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span> 1531</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">looking older than one is, well-grown</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>271b</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.49</span>; of plants and young persons, <b class="b2">forced, premature, precocious</b>, <b class="b3">τὰ π</b>. Aristox. ap. Stob.4.37.4, cf. <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">VP</span>31.209</span>.</span>