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προϊέναι (proienai)

προϊέναι is an Ancient Greek form of προίημι, meaning “send forth, let go, give up”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21.1: … έχρι μὲν οὗ περὶ Ἐλευσῖνα καὶ τὸ Θριάσιον πεδίον ὁ στρατὸς ἦν, καί τινα ἐλπίδα εἶχον ἐς τὸ ἐγγυτέρω αὐτοὺς μὴ προϊέναι, μεμνημένοι καὶ Πλειστοάνακτα τὸν Παυσανίου Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλέα, ὅτε ἐσβαλὼν τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἐς Ἐλευσῖνα καὶ Θρ …

Xenophon, On Hunting 3.7: … ι θαμινὰ σκοποῦσιν, ἑαυταῖς ἀπίστως ἔχουσι· θρασεῖαι δʼ αἳ οὐκ ἐῶσι τῶν συνεργῶν τὰς σοφωτέρας εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν προιέναι, ἀλλʼ ἀνείργουσι θορυβοῦσαι· αἱ δὲ ἀσπαζόμεναι τὰ ψευδῆ καὶ ὑπερλαμπρυνόμεναι ἐφʼ ὅτῳ ἂν τύχωσι προάγουσι συν …

All forms of προίημι (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.