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προδείκνυμι

προδείκνυμι, to shew by way of example

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προδεικνύων present active participle masculine nominative singular, present active participle masculine vocative singular of προδείκνυμι

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προδείκνῡμι (προδεικνύω Hdt. 1.209, 7.37), 3 sg. προδίκνυτι [δῐ] Epigr. in GDI 5112 (Crete): Ion. aor. -έδεξα (v. infr.):—
  • show by example, by doing something first, προδέξαντες σχῆμα, οἷόν τι ἔμελλε εὐπρεπέστατον φανέεσθαι ἔχουσα Hdt. 1.60; τὸν ζωστῆρα προδέξας having shown [the way of] the girdle, Id. 4.10.
      • 2 abs., tell first, A. Pr. 779, S. OT 624.
    • II foreshow what is about to happen, πάντα τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα Hdt. 1.209; Ἕλλησι π. ὁ θεὸς ἔκλειψιν τῶν πολίων Id. 7.37, cf. 6.27; προφαίνει καρπὸν . . μέχρι τοῦ προδεῖξαι μόνον Thphr. CP 1.13.10: c. acc. et inf., make known beforehand that . ., Th. 3.47; π. ὅτι . . Plu. Phoc. 28; προδεδειγμένου it having been already shown, A.D Synt. 336.16.
    • III point before one, σκήπτρῳ π. γαῖαν, of a blind man, S. OT 456; π. τὸ τόξον put it out before one, Luc. Herc. 1, cf. Herm. 68; π. δελεάσματα hold out baits, Them. Or. 22.271c; π. χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς ib. 7.91c.
      • 2 as a technical term of pugilists, χερσὶ π. make feints with the hands, Theoc. 22.102; also in war, X. Eq.Mag. 8.24; π. τινὰς ἐπιβολάς Plb. 2.66.2; of the cuttle-fish, π. εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν Arist. HA 621b34.

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