Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /proβál̚lo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /provál̚lo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pɾoválo/

Verb

προβάλλω • ‎(probállō)

1. (active)
   1. to throw or lay before, throw to
      • Homer, Odyssey 5.331
   2. to put forward as a defense
      • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
      1. to put forward, begin
         • Homer, Iliad 11.529
      2. to put forward as an argument or plea
         • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 810
      3. to put forward or propose for an office
         • Andocides, Collected Works 17.19
      4. to propose a question, task, problem, riddle
         • Aristophanes, The Clouds 757
      5. to put forth beyond
         • Sophocles, Electra 740
   3. to expose, give up
      • Herodotus, Histories 7.141
   4. to send forth, emit
      • Dioscorides, Materia medica 4.50
   5. (intransitive) to fall forward
      • Scholium on Aristophanes' Birds 487
2. (medium and perfect passive)
   1. to throw or toss before one, to throw away, expose
      • Sophocles, Philoctetes 1007
      1. to lay before or first
         • Homer, Iliad 23.255
      2. to set before oneself, propose to oneself
         • Hesiod, Works and Days 777
      3. to put forward, propose for election
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.98
   2. to throw beyond, beat in throwing; to surpass, excel
      • Homer, Iliad 19.218
   3. to hold before oneself so as to protect
      • Tyrtaeus 12.3
      1. (metaphoric) to put forward
         • Homer, Iliad 293.20
         1. to bring forward or cite on one's own part, in defense
            • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
      2. to put before
         • The Histories, 3.72,9
   4. (Attic law) to accuse a person before the Ecclesia by the process called προβολή ‎(probolḗ), literally to present him as guilty of the offense
      • Demosthenes 514.6

Inflection

References

• προβάλλω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• προβάλλω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• προβάλλω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «προβάλλω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «προβάλλω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4261”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ 8th edition