Πρόοπτος

foreseen, manifest

Translated by David Whitehead14 Mar 2010Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 19 words
[Meaning] plain in advance, clear in advance.1
Herodotus [writes]: "these men intend to betray us with a foreseen death".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πρόοπτος· προφανής, πρόδηλος. Ἡρόδοτος· ἡμέας οὗτοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι προόπτως θανάτῳ μέλλουσι προδώσειν.

Betacode
*pro/optos: profanh/s, pro/dhlos. *(hro/dotos: h(me/as ou(=toi oi( a)/nqrwpoi proo/ptws qana/tw| me/llousi prodw/sein.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Other lexica have similar glosses for the neuter pro/opton. ↩
  2. 2From the speech of the Phocian Harmocydes, referring to the Persians, in Herodotus 9.17.4 (which has the dative of the adjective, not the Suda's adverb, and the uncompound verb dw/sein: see web address 1). ↩

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π2542ΠροξενῶI act as proxenos ofπ2543ΠροοδοποιῶI prepare beforehand, I prepare the wayπ2544Πρόοπτοςforeseen, manifestπ2545ΠροορῶI look forward to, I foreseeπ2546Προώληςutterly destroyed
Revision history6 revisions · last 19 Nov 2021
  1. added a link — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
  6. set status — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — David Whitehead

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