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προφερής

προφερής, carried before, placed before, excelling

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προφερέστεροί masculine nominative plural comparative, masculine vocative plural comparative of προφερής

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προφερής, ές, (προφέρω) poet. Adj.,
  • carried before, placed before, excelling, c. gen., ἀλλάων προφερής τʼ ἦν πρεσβυτάτη τε Hes. Sc. 260: Hom. only Comp. (exc. Sup., ἅλματι . . πάντων προφερέστατος Od. 8.128), more excellent, τῶν δʼ ἄλλων ἐμέ φημι πολὺ προφερέστερον εἶναι Od. 8.221: c. dat. rei, βίῃ προφερέστερος 21.134: c. inf., [ἡμίονοι] βοῶν προφερέστεραί εἰσιν ἑλκέμεναι Il. 10.352: Sup., προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων Hes. Th. 79, 361 (where it is commonly interpreted eldest); ἀνὴρ προφερέστατος ἀνδρῶν IG 14.935, cf. Theoc. 17.4; ἡνιόχων π. IG 14.1628, cf. Epigr.Gr. 435 (Trachonitis); also Comp. and Sup., προφέρτερος, προφέρτατος in the sense of older, eldest, S. Fr. 447, OC 1531.
    • II looking older than one is, well-grown, Pl. Euthd. 271b, cf. Aeschin. 1.49; of plants and young persons, forced, premature, precocious, τὰ π. Aristox. ap. Stob. 4.37.4, cf. Iamb. VP 31.209.

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