προοίμιον

prooimion

opening, introduction

Appears 39 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 30
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Book IV 12
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722d2
722d4
722d7
722e2
722e7
723c2
723c4
723e2
723e6
723a3
723b1
723b5
Book V 2
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734e3
734e4
Book VI 1
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772e4
Book IX 6
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854c6
854c8
870d4
870e5
854a3
880a8
Book X 4
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887c1
907d1
907d4
887a3
Book XI 5
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916d4
923c3
925e8
930e5
932a6
Republic 5
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Book II 1
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357a2
Book IV 1
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432e8
Book VII 3
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531d7
531d8
532d7
Letters 1
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316a3
Phaedo 1
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60d2
Phaedrus 1
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266d7
Timaeus 1
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29d5

Dictionary (LSJ)

προοίμιον, τό, Trag. contr. φροίμιον (v. infr.): (οἶμος):—A. opening, introduction; in Music, prelude, overture, Pi. P. 1.4; in Ep. poems, proëm, preamble, Id. N. 2.3, Ar. Eq. 1343; in speeches, exordium, Critias 43 tit., Arist. Rh. 1414b19, Phld. Rh. 1.56S., Stoic. 2.96, etc.; προοιμίοις ἡδονῆς with prefaces about pleasure, X. Mem. 2.1.27. 2. metaph. of any prelude or beginning, φροίμιον χορεύσομαι A. Ag. 31, cf. 829; φροιμίοις <δυσφροιμίοις> ib. 1216, cf. Th. 7; λόγους . . μηδέπω ʼν προοιμίοις only just beginning, Id. Pr. 741; εἴ τι τοῦδε φ. ματᾷ any part of this presage, Id. Eu. 142; ὁρῶ τάδε φροίμια . . πόνων Id. Supp. 830 (lyr.), cf. E. Hipp. 568, X. Mem. 4.2.3; ἐγχέων π. Pi. Fr. 78; π. δείπνου Alex. 110.3; π. ἔχθρας Plb. 22.4.15; ἀρχῆς Id. 25.3.8 (pl.); δάκρυά μοι τὰ π. τῆς τέχνης Luc. Somn. 3; of premonitory symptoms of disease, Orib. Syn. 8.2. II. hymn or short poem, such as those attributed to Homer, Ἀπόλλωνος Th. 3.104, cf. Pl. Phd. 60d, R. 531d; φροίμιον Ἀντιλόχου (fort. Ἀρχιλόχου) Call. Fr. 223.

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