πρόφασιν (prophasin)

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

Found 371 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1218: ἵετο γὰρ πρόφασιν πολέμου Δρυόπεσσι βαλέσθαι

Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes 19·2: … ι τῇ ὀργῇ καὶ ἀσθένειαν ὁ ἔρως, καὶ τὸ τὴν Ἀρεταφίλαν ἐρρωμένως ὁμόσε χωρεῖν ταῖς κατηγορίαις ἀμύνουσαν ἑαυτῇ πρόφασίν τινα τῷ πάθει παρεῖχεν. ἐπεὶ δὲ κατελαμβάνετο τοῖς ἐλέγχοις καὶ τὴν παρασκευὴν τῆς φαρμακείας ἑώρα μὴ δεχομέν …

Pindar, Pythian 5.28: ὀψινόου θυγατέρα Πρόφασιν, Βαττιδᾶν

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.