προλαβεῖν (prolabein)

προλαβεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of προλαμβάνω, meaning “take beforehand, anticipate”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 12.1: … ἅπαντας, οὐκ ἀδύνατον δὲ τὸ μὴ λαθόντα τοῦ κριθῆναι φθάσαι κρείττονα γενόμενον, ἣν ἀναιρεῖ τὸ ἀδίκημα κρίσιν, προλαβεῖν ἔδωκε τῷ δυναμένῳ κατὰ τοῦ ἀδικοῦντος.

All forms of προλαμβάνω (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.