προοίμιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Trag. contr. [[φροίμιον]] (v. infr.): ([[οἶμος]]):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[opening]], [[introduction]]; in Music, [[prelude]], [[overture]], Pi.''P.''1.4; in Ep. poems, [[proëm]], [[preamble]], Id.''N.''2.3, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''1343; in speeches, [[exordium]], Critias 43 tit., Arist. ''Rh.''1414b19, Phld.''Rh.''1.56S., ''Stoic.''2.96, etc.; [[προοιμίοις ἡδονῆς]] = with [[preface]]s about [[pleasure]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''2.1.27.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of any [[prelude]] or [[beginning]], φροίμιον χορεύσομαι A.''Ag.''31, cf. 829; φροιμίοις ib. 1216, cf. ''Th.''7; λόγους… μηδέπω 'ν προοιμίοις = [[only]] [[just]] [[beginning]], Id.''Pr.''741; [[εἴ τι τοῦδε φροιμίου ματᾷ]] = whether that [[dream]]-[[prophecy]] was [[wide of the mark]] at all, any part of this [[presage]], Id.''Eu.'' 142; ὁρῶ τάδε φροίμια… πόνων Id.''Supp.''830 (lyr.), cf. E.''Hipp.''568, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''4.2.3; ἐγχέων π. Pi.''Fr.''78; π. δείπνου Alex.110.3; π. ἔχθρας Plb.22.4.15; ἀρχῆς Id.25.3.8 (pl.); δάκρυά μοι τὰ π. τῆς τέχνης Luc. ''Somn.''3; of [[premonitory]] [[symptom]]s of [[disease]], Orib.''Syn.''8.2.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[hymn]] or [[short]] [[poem]], such as those attributed to [[Homer]], Ἀπόλλωνος Th.3.104, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 60d, ''R.''531d; [[φροίμιον]] Ἀντιλόχου (fort. Ἀρχιλόχου) Call.''Fr.''223.