προδείκνυμι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(προδεικνύω <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.209</span>, <span class="bibl">7.37</span>), 3sg. <b class="b3">προδίκνυτι [δῐ]</b> Epigr. in <span class="title">GDI</span>5112 (Crete): Ion.aor. <b class="b3">-έδεξα</b> (v. infr.):—<span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[show by example]], by doing something first, προδέξαντες σχῆμα, οἷόν τι ἔμελλε εὐπρεπέστατον φανέεσθαι ἔχουσα <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.60</span>; <b class="b3">τὸν ζωστῆρα προδέξας</b> [[having shown]] [the way of] the girdle, <span class="bibl">Id.4.10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> abs., [[tell first]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>779</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>624</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[foreshow]] what is about to happen, πάντα τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.209</span>; Ἕλλησι π. ὁ θεὸς ἔκλειψιν τῶν πολίων <span class="bibl">Id.7.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">6.27</span>; προφαίνει καρπὸν… μέχρι τοῦ προδεῖξαι μόνον <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>1.13.10</span>: c. acc. et inf., [[make known beforehand]] that... <span class="bibl">Th.3.47</span>; π. ὅτι… <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Phoc.</span>28</span>; [[προδεδειγμένου]] [[it having been already shown]], A.D <span class="title">Synt.</span> 336.16. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[point before]] one, <b class="b3">σκήπτρῳ π. γαῖαν</b>, of a blind man, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>456</span>; <b class="b3">π. τὸ τόξον</b> [[put]] it [[out before]] one, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Herc.</span>1</span>, cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Herm.</span>68</span>; <b class="b3">π. δελεάσματα</b> [[hold out]] baits, <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>22.271c</span>; <b class="b3">π. χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς</b> ib.<span class="bibl">7.91c</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> as a technical term of pugilists, <b class="b3">χερσὶ π</b>. [[make feints]] with the hands, <span class="bibl">Theoc.22.102</span>; also in war, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.Mag.</span>8.24</span>; π. τινὰς ἐπιβολάς <span class="bibl">Plb.2.66.2</span>; of the cuttle-fish, π. εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span>621b34</span>.</span>