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προλαβών (prolabon)

προλαβών is an Ancient Greek form of προλαμβάνω, meaning “take beforehand, anticipate”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 914: χάριν οὐ προλαβὼν

Lucian of Samosata, De mercede 37: … θὺς ἔτι σκεπτομένου παρακούσας τοῦ δεσπότου προδραμὼν καὶ προμηνύσας ἀπέρχεται μισθὸν οὐκ ὀλίγον τῆς ἀγγελίας προλαβών. ἕωθεν δὲ τρισκαίδεκα ἥκουσιν κομίζοντες, ἕκαστος ὡς πολλὰ εἶπε καὶ ὡς ὑπέμνησε καὶ ὡς ἐπιτραπεὶς τὸ κάλλιον …

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.