[Meaning] to honor in preference.[1] [Used] with an accusative.[2] "For none of those things which provide common benefit is to be given up in preference to me or to any other good man."[3]
*proe/sqai: protimh/sasqai. ai)tiatikh=|. ou)/te ga\r pro\ e)mou= ou)/te pro\ a)/llou a)ndro\s a)gaqou= ou)de/ e)sti proe/sqai ti tw=n koinh=| sumfero/ntwn.
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss FV, and placed after
pi 2392 in ms A.
[1] The headword is aorist middle infinitive of
proi+/hmi (cf.
pi 2394) The gloss here seems to fit poorly.
[2] Likewise in syntactical lexica.
[3] More fully in Bekker,
Anecdota Graeca (
de syntacticis) 165.26, identifying the source of the quotation as 'Dio in the eleventh book'. In modern editions of
Cassius Dio's
Roman Histories this is book 12 (sic) section 43 subsection 31.
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