πρόκριτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=πρόκριτον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[chosen before others]], [[select]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 537d, ''Lg.''945b: especially of a [[preliminary]] [[list]] of [[selected]] [[candidate]]s, κληρωτοὶ ἐκ προκρίτων Arist.''Pol.''1298b9, cf. ''Ath.''8.1, Decr.ib.30.2; [[πρόκριτος ἢ]]... = [[chosen rather than]]... ''AP''5.257 (Paul. Sil.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> at Rome, πρόκριτος, = [[princeps]], D.C.57.8; [[πρόκριτος τῆς γερουσίας]] = [[princeps senatus]], Id.53.1, cf. 46.20; [[πρόκριτος τῆς νεότητος]] = [[princeps juventutis]], Id.78.17 (also [[πρόκριτος τῆς ἱππάδος]] = [[leader of the knights]], [[princeps militiae]] Id.71.35); πρόκριτος (''[[sc.]]'' [[πρόκριτος τῶν γραμματοφόρων]]) = [[princeps peregrinorum]], prob. in Id.78.14 ([[πρόκοιτος]] codd.).