προφάσεως (prophaseos)

προφάσεως is an Ancient Greek form of πρόφασις, meaning “excuse, pretext, cause”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 129 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49.2: τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους ἀπ’ οὐδεμιᾶς προφάσεως, ἀλλ’ ἐξαίφνης ὑγιεῖς ὄντας πρῶτον μὲν τῆς κεφαλῆς θέρμαι ἰσχυραὶ καὶ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐρυθήματα καὶ φλόγωσις ἐλάμβανε, καὶ τὰ ἐντός, ἥ τε φάρυγξ καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα, εὐθὺς αἱματώδη ἦν καὶ πνεῦμα ἄτοπον καὶ δυσῶδες ἠφίει·

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.39.3: καὶ ταύτην μὲν εὐθὺς μεταγνόντες καὶ μηδὲ προφάσεώς τινος ἐπιλαβόμενοι μετεσκευάσαντο· τῶν δὲ δημάρχων τούς τε καταλόγους διαλῦσαι καὶ τὰς στρατείας αὐτῶν ἀναψηφίσαι ἐπιχειρούντων

All forms of πρόφασις (declension 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.