προθείς (protheis)

προθείς is an Ancient Greek form of προτίθημι, meaning “set before; propose”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of προθέω, “run ahead”.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.76.2: … ῦντες μέχρι οὗ τὰ ξυμφέροντα λογιζόμενοι τῷ δικαίῳ λόγῳ νῦν χρῆσθε, ὃν οὐδείς πω παρατυχὸν ἰσχύι τι κτήσασθαι προθεὶς τοῦ μὴ πλέον ἔχειν ἀπετράπετο.

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 559: ἄγʼ, ἤν σʼ ἔρωμαι δύο λόγω προθεῖσʼ ἅμα,

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1550: δάκρυε, πρόσθεν ὀμμάτων πέπλον προθείς.

All forms of προτίθημι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.