προπάτωρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ορος, ὁ, (πατήρ) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[first founder of a family]], [[forefather]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>4.89</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.161</span>,<span class="bibl">9.122</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>1441</span> (lyr.); ὦ Ζεῦ, προγόνων προπάτωρ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>387</span> (lyr., s.v.l.); opp. [[πατήρ]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>931d</span>; [[ancestor]] of a tribe, <span class="title">OGI</span>446.3 (Phrygia); θεὸς ὁ π. Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.44, cf.Id.ib.3.11.31, <span class="title">IGRom.</span>4.1213, 1215 (Thyatira); Διόνυσος ὁ π. τῆς πόλεως <span class="bibl">D.Chr.39.8</span>, cf. <span class="title">BCH</span>4.157 (Erythrae); [[primal god]], PMag.Par.1.1988, <b class="b2">PMag. Leid.V</b>.7.26; π. τῶν ἐν γενέσει δημιουργὸν προτάττουσι <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">Myst.</span>8.4</span>: in pl., [[ancestors]], [[forefathers]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.169</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>717e</span>; [[founders]], [[inventors]] of arts and sciences, Vett. Val.<span class="bibl">3.22</span>.</span>