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|mdlsjtxt=[[προστάτης]], ου, ὁ, [προστῆναι]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> one who stands [[before]], a [[front]]-[[rank]]-man, Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[chief]], [[leader]] of a [[party]], Hdt.; ὁ πρ. τοῦ δήμου Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[generally]], a [[president]], [[ruler]], Aesch., Eur., etc.; προστάται τῆς εἰρήνης its [[chief]] authors, Xen.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> one who stands [[before]], a [[protector]], [[guard]], [[champion]], πυλωμάτων Aesch., Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> at [[Athens]], of a [[citizen]] who took [[care]] of the μέτοικοι, as the Rom. [[patronus]] took [[care]] of his clientes; προστάτην γράφεσθαί τινα to [[choose]] as one's [[patron]], Ar.; but, γράφεσθαι προστάτου to [[enter]] [[oneself]] by one's [[patron]]'s [[name]], [[attach]] [[oneself]] to a [[patron]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> [[προστάτης]] θεοῦ one who stands [[before]] a god to [[entreat]] him, a [[suppliant]], Soph.

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