πρόναος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or προναῖος, α, ον, Ion. προνήϊος, η, ον, Att. πρόνεως: (ναός):—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[before a temple]], βωμοὺς προνάους <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>494</span>: esp. of gods [[whose statues stood before the temple]], <b class="b3">Ἀθηνᾶ καὶ Ἑρμῆς πρόναοι</b> at Thebes, <span class="bibl">Paus.9.10.2</span>; [[πρόνεως]], [[epithet]] of Poseidon, Hsch.; freq. of Athena at Delphi, because she had a chapel or statue there [[before the great temple]] of Apollo, κατὰ τὸ ἱρὸν τῆς Προνηΐης Ἀθηναίης <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">39</span>; ἐν δὲ Προνηΐης τῆς ἐν Δελφοῖσι <span class="bibl">Id.1.92</span>; Παλλὰς προναία <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>21</span>; <b class="b3">ἐναγὴς ἔστω τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος . . καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς Προναίας</b> Decr. Amphict. ap. <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.110</span> ([[Προνοίας]] codd., so also in 108, al., but cf. Harp.); χἡ Παλλάς, Δελφοί νιν ὅθ' ἱδρύοντο προναίην <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>220</span>; Ἀθηνᾷ Προναίᾳ <span class="title">SIG</span>324 (Delph., iv B.C.), cf. <span class="title">Schwyzer</span> 323<span class="title">D</span>35 (ibid., iv B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Subst. <b class="b3">πρόναος, ὁ,</b> [[front hall]] of a temple, through which one passed to the [[ναός]], <span class="title">BMus.Inscr.</span> 481*.272,283 (Ephesus, ii A.D.); Ion. πρόνηος <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Syr.D.</span>30</span>; Att. dat. written προνεοι <span class="title">IG</span>12.237.58, προνειοι ib.232.6 (prob. to be understood as [[πρόνεῳ]] and [[πρόνειῳ]]); Ion. gen. προνηΐου <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.51</span>: pl. [[προνήϊα]], as Adv., [[before the temple]], AP6.281 (Leon.): also neut. πρόναον, τό, <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.28</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.2.150</span>, <span class="bibl">236</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.8.32.2</span> codd., <span class="title">OGI</span>661 (Egypt, i A.D.), 702 (ibid., ii A.D.), <span class="title">Ath.Mitt.</span> 35.442 (Pergam., ii A.D.), <span class="title">Milet.</span> 1(7) No.200 (iii A.D.), <span class="title">Ephes.</span>2 No.42 (iii A.D.), <span class="title">IGRom.</span>4.556 (Ancyra): gender uncertain in προνάοις <span class="bibl">D.S.14.41</span>; προνάϊον, <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).515 <span class="title">Ba</span> (Lycosura, i B.C. i A.D.), 520 (ibid., ii A.D.), 7.225 (Aegosthena), <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>8.3.2</span> (v.l. [[πρόναον]]); προνάειν, <span class="title">Jahresh.</span> 15 <span class="title">Beibl.</span>106 (Dionysopolis, iii A.D.). (The forms [[Προναια]], [[προναιην]], [[pronaion]] should perh. be understood as [[Προνᾴα]], [[προνᾴην]], [[πρόνᾳον]]: the word is trisyll. in A. and Call. ll. cc.)</span>

|mdlsjtxt=πρό-νᾱος, ορ πρό-ναιος, η, ον [[ναός]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[before]] a [[temple]], esp. of gods whose shrines or statues stood [[before]] the [[temple]], as of [[Athena]] at [[Delphi]], Hdt.; Παλλὰς προναία Aesch.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> as [[substantive]], [[πρόναος]], = [[πρόδομος]], the [[hall]] of a [[temple]], [[through]] [[which]] one went to the [[ναός]] or [[cella]], Hdt.