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προσδοκία

prosdokia

looking for, expectation

Appears 9 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

προσδοκία, ἡ, A. looking for, expectation, whether in hope or fear, but more commonly fear, 1. c. gen., μέλλοντος κακοῦ, δεινῶν, Pl. La. 198b, Ti. 70c; π. τοῦ μέλλοντος Arist. PA 669a21; τὸν φόβον ὁρίζονται π. κακοῦ Id. EN 1115a9: in good sense, π. ἀγαθῶν ἐμβάλλειν X. Cyr. 1.6.19 (pl.); τῆς ἀσφαλείας ἔχειν π. D. 18.281; π. μεγάλην ἔχειν ὡς εὖ ἐροῦντος ἐμοῦ Pl. Smp. 194a; τὰς τῶν ἔργων προσδοκίας ἀπαιτεῖν τινα, i.e. the fulfilment of the expectations raised, Aeschin. 2.178. 2. abs., τῶν ὑποκειμένων π. καὶ τῶν ἐλπίδων D. 19.24; αἱ ἔσχαται π. D.S. 20.78. 3. folld. by a conjunction, προσδοκία οὐδεμία (sc. ἦν) μὴ ἐπιπλεύσειαν Th. 2.93; π. οὔσης μή τι νεωτερίσωσιν Id. 5.14; προσδοκίαν παρέχειν ὡς . . Id. 7.12; π. ἐμποιεῖν ὡς . . Isoc. 8.6. 4. with Preps., πρὸς προσδοκίαν according to expectation, Th. 6.63; κατὰ τὴν π. Pl. Sph. 264b; opp. παρὰ προσδοκίαν, which is used of a kind of joke freq. in Com., e.g. ἔχειν ὑπὸ ποσσὶ—χίμεθλα (where πέδιλα was expected), Demetr. Eloc. 152, Hermog. Meth. 34, Tib. Fig. 16: generally, τὸ παρὰ π. ἐξαπίναιον Phld. Herc. 1251.19.
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