Strong G4392πρόφασις
pretense
- Transliteration
- prophasis
- Pronunciation
- prof'-as-is
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Detailed definition
πρό-φασις, -εως, ἡ
(φήμι), [in LXX: Psa.141:4 (עֲלִילָה), ??עֲלִילָה), ??Dan.6:4-5(5-6) (עִלָּה) Pro.18:1, Hos.10:4 *;]
a pretence, pretext: Mat.23:1 (WM, R, txt., om.), Mrk.12:40, Luk.20:47 Jhn.15:22, Act.27:30, Php.1:18, 1Th.2:5.†
(AS)
(φήμι), [in LXX: Psa.141:4 (עֲלִילָה), ??עֲלִילָה), ??Dan.6:4-5(5-6) (עִלָּה) Pro.18:1, Hos.10:4 *;]
a pretence, pretext: Mat.23:1 (WM, R, txt., om.), Mrk.12:40, Luk.20:47 Jhn.15:22, Act.27:30, Php.1:18, 1Th.2:5.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4392 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- pretence3
- cloke2
- colour1
- shew1
First verses
- Matthew 23:14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
- Mark 12:40Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
- Luke 20:47Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
- John 15:22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
- Acts 27:30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
- Philippians 1:18What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
πρόφᾰσ-ις, εως, ἡ,
(προφαίνω) motive or cause alleged, whether truly or falsely: then, actual motive or cause, whether alleged or not:
I alleged motive, plea, without implication of truth or falsity, ἐπὶ σμικρῇ π. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 323; νόστου π. γλυκεροῦ κώλυεν μεῖναι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.32; κατὰ θεωρίης πρόφασιν ἐκπλώσας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.29; π. ἔχων, ὡς.. [prev. author] 6.133)]; καὶ ἐπὶ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐπὶ βραχείᾳ π. whether the plea put forward be a trifle or a weighty matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.141)]; τῆς αἰτίας τὴν π. the plea in the case, the basis of the charge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.7)]; τοιαύτας ἔχοντες π. καὶ αἰτίας pleas and motives, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13)]; π. ἐπιεικής[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 9; ἀναγκαῖαι 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 4.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.17)]; προφάσεις ἀληθεῖς λέγοντος pleading what was in fact true, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.17.)]
I.2 falsely alleged motive (or cause), pretext, pretence, excuse, π. ἰδίης ἀβουλίης an excuse for.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 119; οὔτε τιν᾽ ἔχων π. οὔτε λόγον εὐτράπελον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 468 (Lyric poetry); καλλίστην εἶναι π., τιμωρεῖσθαι μὲν δοκεῖν, ἔργῳ δὲ χρηματίζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.6: _absolutely_ in _accusative_, πρόφασιν)] in pretence, ostensibly, στενάχοντο γυναῖκες Πάτροκλον π., σφῶν δ᾽ αὐτῶν κήδε᾽ ἑκάστη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.302, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.33, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 362 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 466, etc.)]; opposed to τὸ ἀληθές, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.33: in _dative_, προφάσει [prev. author] 3.86)]; προφάσει τῶν δημοσίων on the pretence that public debts are owing, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 669.15 (Egypt, 1st c.AD))]; προφάσιος [εἵνεκεν], προφάσεως ἕνεκα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.14; προφάσεως χάριν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1297a14)]; ἐκ μικρᾶς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.17.3; ἐπὶ προφάσιος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.150: followed by an)]infinitive, αὕτη γὰρ ἦν σοι π. ἐκβαλεῖν ἐμέ for casting me out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1034; οὔτε.. ἔστιν οὐδεμία π. τοῦ μὴ δρᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 20c)]; π. τοῖς δειλοῖς ἔχει μὴ ἰέναι gives them an excuse or plea for not going, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 469c; οὐδεμία σοι π. ἐστιν ὡς.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.15)]; εὑρὼν π. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“BGU” 1024 vi 21 (4th c.AD).)]
I.2.b phrases, πρόφασιν διδόναι, ἐνδοῦναι, allow, afford an excuse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.53, 18.158; οὐκ ἐνδώσομεν π. οὐδενὶ κακῷ γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87)]; π. μηδεμίαν θέμενος making no excuse, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 364)]; π. προτεῖναι put forward a pretext, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.156; π. τὴν Παυσανίεω ὕβριν προϊσχόμενοι [prev. author] 8.3; προφάσεις παρέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 581, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.35, 18.156)]; προφάσιας εἷλκον kept making pretences, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86; πάσας π. ἕλκουσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 726; π. δέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 421d (compare ἀγών 111.5); π. εὑρίσκειν τοῦ ἀδικήματος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.65; π. καλῶς εὑρημένη 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 36; ἔχθρας π. ζητήσουσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 234a, compare “PCair.Zen.” 270.9 (3rd c.BC))]; π. τινὰ πρεσβείας πορισάμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 350a; π. κατασκευάσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.17)]; ἔχει προφάσεις it is excusable,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 3.1.27; πρόφασιν ταύτην τῆς διαφορᾶς ποιούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 349d; προφάσεις εὐλόγους εἰλήφεσαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.152; ἐχόμενος προφάσιος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.94; ἐπιλαβέσθαι [prev. author] 3.36, 6.49; τὰς π. ἀφελεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.27; προφάσεως δεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1373a3: personified, τὰν Ἐπιμαθέος ὀψινόου θυγατέρα Π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.28.)]
I.2.c elliptically, μή μοι πρόφασιν no excuse, no shuffling, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 345; μὴ προφάσεις ἐνταῦθά μοι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 127.1.)]
II the actual motive, purpose, or cause, whether alleged or not, οὔτ᾽ εὐνῆς πρόφασιν κεχρημένος οὔτε τευ ἄλλου [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.262; ἐπ᾽ αὐτομολίας προφάσει ἀπέρχονται 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.13)]; τὸ ἐκ προφάσεως τῶν.. στρατιωτῶν δηληγατευθὲν μέτρον ἐλαίου for the purpose of.., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLips.” 64.2, compare 8 (4th c.AD))]; τὴν ἀληθεστάτην π., ἀφανεστάτην δὲ λόγῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23, compare 6.6, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.156, “SIG” 888.138 (Scaptopara, 3rd c.AD, _plural_))]: especially as a medical technical term, external exciting cause, ἐκ πάσης π. ἐκτιτρώσκουσι they miscarry on any provocation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.12, compare “Epid.” 3.3, 3.17.ιά, “Acut.(Sp.”) 6; τοὺς δ᾽ ἄλλους ἀπ᾽ οὐδεμιᾶς π... τῆς κεφαλῆς θέρμαι.. ἐλάμβανε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 16, “Fract.” 15, +others)]: generally, cause, σμικρὰ π. ἔξωθεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 556e)]; βραχεῖα π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 477; ἀπὸ μηδεμιᾶς π. ἔξωθεν ἀξιολόγου Diocl.fragment 82)]; φανερὴ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.41, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.33; ἐπεὶ δέ οἱ ἔδεε κακῶς γενέσθαι, ἐγένετο ἀπὸ προφάσιος τὴν ἐγὼ.. ἀπηγήσομαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.161, compare 4.145, 7.230; ἄνθρωπός εἰμι, τοῦτο δ᾽ αὐτὸ τῷ βίῳ π. μεγίστην εἰς τὸ λυπεῖσθαι φέρει 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 106, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 230, 811, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 194)]; βραχείας προφάσεως ἔδει μόνον ἐφ᾽ ᾗ.. δεξόμεθα.. it needed but a little to move us to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1180.)]
II.2 occasion, θοἰμάτιον δεικνὺς τοδὶ πρόφασιν ἔφασκον, ὦ γύναι, λίαν σπαθᾷς I said à propos,.. I took occasion to say.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 55)]; ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ π. à propos of me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.19)]; ἐπὶ τῇ π. τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ἀρχῆς on the occasion of my accession, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PFay.” 20.11 (3rd-4th c.AD).)]
III persuasion, suggestion, uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 662 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV preface, τὰς σημειώσεις ὑπὸ μίαν ἐκθησόμεθα π. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Ther.” 3.)]
(προφαίνω) motive or cause alleged, whether truly or falsely: then, actual motive or cause, whether alleged or not:
I alleged motive, plea, without implication of truth or falsity, ἐπὶ σμικρῇ π. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 323; νόστου π. γλυκεροῦ κώλυεν μεῖναι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.32; κατὰ θεωρίης πρόφασιν ἐκπλώσας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.29; π. ἔχων, ὡς.. [prev. author] 6.133)]; καὶ ἐπὶ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐπὶ βραχείᾳ π. whether the plea put forward be a trifle or a weighty matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.141)]; τῆς αἰτίας τὴν π. the plea in the case, the basis of the charge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.7)]; τοιαύτας ἔχοντες π. καὶ αἰτίας pleas and motives, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13)]; π. ἐπιεικής[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 9; ἀναγκαῖαι 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 4.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.17)]; προφάσεις ἀληθεῖς λέγοντος pleading what was in fact true, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.17.)]
I.2 falsely alleged motive (or cause), pretext, pretence, excuse, π. ἰδίης ἀβουλίης an excuse for.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 119; οὔτε τιν᾽ ἔχων π. οὔτε λόγον εὐτράπελον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 468 (Lyric poetry); καλλίστην εἶναι π., τιμωρεῖσθαι μὲν δοκεῖν, ἔργῳ δὲ χρηματίζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.6: _absolutely_ in _accusative_, πρόφασιν)] in pretence, ostensibly, στενάχοντο γυναῖκες Πάτροκλον π., σφῶν δ᾽ αὐτῶν κήδε᾽ ἑκάστη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.302, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.33, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 362 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 466, etc.)]; opposed to τὸ ἀληθές, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.33: in _dative_, προφάσει [prev. author] 3.86)]; προφάσει τῶν δημοσίων on the pretence that public debts are owing, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 669.15 (Egypt, 1st c.AD))]; προφάσιος [εἵνεκεν], προφάσεως ἕνεκα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.14; προφάσεως χάριν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1297a14)]; ἐκ μικρᾶς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.17.3; ἐπὶ προφάσιος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.150: followed by an)]infinitive, αὕτη γὰρ ἦν σοι π. ἐκβαλεῖν ἐμέ for casting me out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1034; οὔτε.. ἔστιν οὐδεμία π. τοῦ μὴ δρᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 20c)]; π. τοῖς δειλοῖς ἔχει μὴ ἰέναι gives them an excuse or plea for not going, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 469c; οὐδεμία σοι π. ἐστιν ὡς.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.15)]; εὑρὼν π. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“BGU” 1024 vi 21 (4th c.AD).)]
I.2.b phrases, πρόφασιν διδόναι, ἐνδοῦναι, allow, afford an excuse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.53, 18.158; οὐκ ἐνδώσομεν π. οὐδενὶ κακῷ γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87)]; π. μηδεμίαν θέμενος making no excuse, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 364)]; π. προτεῖναι put forward a pretext, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.156; π. τὴν Παυσανίεω ὕβριν προϊσχόμενοι [prev. author] 8.3; προφάσεις παρέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 581, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.35, 18.156)]; προφάσιας εἷλκον kept making pretences, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.86; πάσας π. ἕλκουσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 726; π. δέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 421d (compare ἀγών 111.5); π. εὑρίσκειν τοῦ ἀδικήματος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.65; π. καλῶς εὑρημένη 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 36; ἔχθρας π. ζητήσουσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 234a, compare “PCair.Zen.” 270.9 (3rd c.BC))]; π. τινὰ πρεσβείας πορισάμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 350a; π. κατασκευάσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.17)]; ἔχει προφάσεις it is excusable,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 3.1.27; πρόφασιν ταύτην τῆς διαφορᾶς ποιούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 349d; προφάσεις εὐλόγους εἰλήφεσαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.152; ἐχόμενος προφάσιος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.94; ἐπιλαβέσθαι [prev. author] 3.36, 6.49; τὰς π. ἀφελεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.27; προφάσεως δεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1373a3: personified, τὰν Ἐπιμαθέος ὀψινόου θυγατέρα Π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.28.)]
I.2.c elliptically, μή μοι πρόφασιν no excuse, no shuffling, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 345; μὴ προφάσεις ἐνταῦθά μοι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 127.1.)]
II the actual motive, purpose, or cause, whether alleged or not, οὔτ᾽ εὐνῆς πρόφασιν κεχρημένος οὔτε τευ ἄλλου [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.262; ἐπ᾽ αὐτομολίας προφάσει ἀπέρχονται 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.13)]; τὸ ἐκ προφάσεως τῶν.. στρατιωτῶν δηληγατευθὲν μέτρον ἐλαίου for the purpose of.., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLips.” 64.2, compare 8 (4th c.AD))]; τὴν ἀληθεστάτην π., ἀφανεστάτην δὲ λόγῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23, compare 6.6, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.156, “SIG” 888.138 (Scaptopara, 3rd c.AD, _plural_))]: especially as a medical technical term, external exciting cause, ἐκ πάσης π. ἐκτιτρώσκουσι they miscarry on any provocation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.12, compare “Epid.” 3.3, 3.17.ιά, “Acut.(Sp.”) 6; τοὺς δ᾽ ἄλλους ἀπ᾽ οὐδεμιᾶς π... τῆς κεφαλῆς θέρμαι.. ἐλάμβανε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 16, “Fract.” 15, +others)]: generally, cause, σμικρὰ π. ἔξωθεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 556e)]; βραχεῖα π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 477; ἀπὸ μηδεμιᾶς π. ἔξωθεν ἀξιολόγου Diocl.fragment 82)]; φανερὴ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.41, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.33; ἐπεὶ δέ οἱ ἔδεε κακῶς γενέσθαι, ἐγένετο ἀπὸ προφάσιος τὴν ἐγὼ.. ἀπηγήσομαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.161, compare 4.145, 7.230; ἄνθρωπός εἰμι, τοῦτο δ᾽ αὐτὸ τῷ βίῳ π. μεγίστην εἰς τὸ λυπεῖσθαι φέρει 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 106, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 230, 811, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 194)]; βραχείας προφάσεως ἔδει μόνον ἐφ᾽ ᾗ.. δεξόμεθα.. it needed but a little to move us to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1180.)]
II.2 occasion, θοἰμάτιον δεικνὺς τοδὶ πρόφασιν ἔφασκον, ὦ γύναι, λίαν σπαθᾷς I said à propos,.. I took occasion to say.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 55)]; ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ π. à propos of me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.19)]; ἐπὶ τῇ π. τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ἀρχῆς on the occasion of my accession, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PFay.” 20.11 (3rd-4th c.AD).)]
III persuasion, suggestion, uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 662 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV preface, τὰς σημειώσεις ὑπὸ μίαν ἐκθησόμεθα π. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Ther.” 3.)]