ἔμπροσθεν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=sts. also [[ἔμπροσθε]] <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.62</span>, <span class="bibl">7.144</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Isoc.<span class="title">Ep.</span>4.10</span>, in Poets metri gr., <span class="bibl">Hegesipp.Com.1.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Nicom.Com. 1.14</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.4.590</span>: neither form in Hom. or Trag., [[τοὔμπροσθεν]] dub. in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>1228</span>. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> Adv., </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> of [[place]], [[before]], [[in front]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.126</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.2.23</span>; τὸ and <b class="b3">τὰ ἔμπροσθεν</b> [[the front]], [[the foreside]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HG</span>2.3.55</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.62</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">εἰς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν</b> [[forwards]], <span class="bibl">Id.4.61</span>; <b class="b3">στὰς ἐκ τοῦ ἔμπροσθεν</b> [[in front]], [[opposite]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.2.6</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">εἰστοὔμπ. προελθεῖν</b> Isoc.l.c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of [[time]], [[before]], [[of old]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>277d</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τὰ ἔμπροσθεν</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Grg.</span>448e</span>; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν τούτων ῥηθέντα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>773e</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ ἔμπροσθεν</b> our [[ancestors]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Plt.</span>296a</span>, Hegesipp. [[l.c.]]; οἱ ἔμπροσθεν Χρόνοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.19</span> (iii B. C.), etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as [[preposition]] c. gen., [[before]], [[in front of]], </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> of [[place]], <b class="b3">ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῆς</b> (''[[sc.]]'' <b class="b3">τῆς νηός</b>) <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.87</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">2.110</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of [[time]], <b class="b3">ἔμπροσθεν ταύτης</b> (''[[sc.]]'' <b class="b3">τῆς γνώμης</b>) <span class="bibl">Id.7.144</span>; <b class="b3">ἔμπροσθεν εἶναι τῶν πραγμάτων</b> to be [[beforehand with]] events, <span class="bibl">D.4.39</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of Degree, <b class="b3">ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ δικαίου</b> [[prefer]]red [[before]] [[justice]], <span class="bibl">Id.56.50</span>.</span>