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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: autoprosôpos 2: autourgeô 3: patrothen 4: empimplêmi 5: chroizô
Latin1: sponte 2: idiographus 3: appromitto 4: peculio 5: fungor
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In Perseus Texts:didômiadelphêmnamêtêrtalanton
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proix, proikos, hê (on the accent v. Arc.125, ti=Arc. An.Ox.3.243; Ion. accus. proïka acc. to EM495.33), gift, present, in Hom. only gen. proikos, as Adv., argaleon hena proikos charisasthai burdensome is it for a single person to give of his bounty, without reimbursement, Hom. Od. 13.15; emellen . . proikos geusesthai Achaiôn was like ly to make trial of the Achaeans with impunity, au=Hom. Od. 17.413 (unless p. g. = taste the gift).



II. acc. proika as Adv., as a free gift, freely, at one's own cost, Aristoph. Kn. 577,au=Aristoph. Kn. 679, ti=Aristoph. Cl. 1426; p. ergazesthai Plat. Rep. 346e; aretê to p. tois philois hupêretein Antiph. 210; p. krinein, presbeuein, without a gift, unbribed, Dem. 5.12, au=Dem. 19.232, cf. IG3.702, etc.; pais . . kakon men dran ti proik' epistatai of oneself, without a teacher, [S.]Fr. 1120.