πρό: Difference between revisions

|auten=[[before]], [[forward]], [[forth]].—I. adv., (κύματα) πρὸ [[μέν]] τ' ἄλλ, αὐτὰρ ἐπ ἄλλα, [[some]] ‘[[before]],’ others [[after]], Il. 13.799, cf. 800; πρὸ γὰρ ἧκε, sent ‘[[forth]],’ Il. 1.195 ; [[Ἰλιόθι]] [[πρό]], [[οὐρανόθι]] [[πρό]], ‘[[before]] [[Ilium]],’ ‘[[athwart]] the [[sky]]’ (at [[Ilium]], in the [[sky]], ‘in [[front]]’), Il. 3.3; of [[time]], [[ἠῶθι]] [[πρό]], in the [[morning]] ‘[[early]]’; [[πρό]] τ' ἐόντα, ‘things [[past]]’; [[πρό]] οἱ εἴπομεν, ‘[[beforehand]],’ Il. 1.70, Od. 1.37; a subst. in the gen. [[may]] [[specify]] the [[relation]] of the adv., πρὸ δ' ἀῤ οὐρῆες κίον αὐτῶν (gen. of [[comparison]]), Il. 23.115.—II. prep. w. gen., (1) of [[space]], πρὸ πυλάων, πρὸ ἄνακτος, [[before]] the gates, in the [[presence]] of the [[master]], Il. 24.734 ; πρὸ ὁδοῦ, [[well]] [[forward]] on the [[way]], Il. 4.382.—(2) of [[time]], Od. 15.524, Il. 10.224.—(3) [[fig]]., in [[behalf]] of, [[for]]; μάχεσθαι, [[ὀλέσθαι]] πρὸ πόληος (pro patria mori), Il. 22.110; causal, πρὸ φόβοιο, [[for]], Il. 17.667.