- πρό
- πρό: before, forward, forth.—I. adv., (κύματα) πρὸ μέν τ' ἄλλ, αὐτὰρ ἐπ ἄλλα, some ‘before,’ others after, Il. 13.799, cf. 800; πρὸ γὰρ ἧκε, sent ‘forth,’ Il. 1.195 ; Ἰλιόθι πρό, οὐρανόθι πρό, ‘before Ilium,’ ‘athwart the sky’ (at Ilium, in the sky, ‘in front’), Il. 3.3; of time, ἠῶθι πρό, in the morning ‘early’; πρό τ' ἐόντα, ‘things past’; πρό οἱ εἴπομεν, ‘beforehand,’ Il. 1.70, Od. 1.37; a subst. in the gen. may specify the relation of the adv., πρὸ δ' ἀῤ οὐρῆες κίον αὐτῶν (gen. of comparison), Il. 23.115.—II. prep. w. gen., (1) of space, πρὸ πυλάων, πρὸ ἄνακτος, before the gates, in the presence of the master, Il. 24.734 ; πρὸ ὁδοῦ, well forward on the way, Il. 4.382.—(2) of time, Od. 15.524, Il. 10.224.—(3) fig., in behalf of, for; μάχεσθαι, ὀλέσθαι πρὸ πόληος (pro patria mori), Il. 22.110; causal, πρὸ φόβοιο, for, Il. 17.667.
A Homeric dictionary (Greek-English) (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ομηρικό λεξικό). 2010.