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προλέγειν (prolegein)

προλέγειν is an Ancient Greek form of προλέγω, meaning “foretell; choose”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 6·2: … τέλος περαίνουσαν, ὁ τὰς αἰτίας εἰς ταὐτὸ συνδεῖν τε πρὸς ἄλληλα καὶ συμπλέκειν φυσικῶς ἐπιστάμενος οἶδε καὶ προλέγειν τὰ τʼ ἐόντα τὰ τʼ ἐσσόμενα πρὸ τʼ ἐόντα. καὶ καλῶς Ὅμηρος πρῶτον ἔταξε τὰ παρόντα εἶτα τὸ μέλλον καὶ τὸ παρῳχ …

All forms of προλέγω (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.