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προγιγνώσκω , Ion. and later προγεωργ-γι_νώσκω : fut. -γνώσομαι: Ep. aor. inf.
A.“προγνώμεναι” h.Cer.257:—know, perceive, learn, or understand beforehand, τι l.c.; “τὰ στοιχεῖα” Pl.Tht.203d: abs., E.Hipp.1072; “π. ὅτι . .” X.Eq.Mag.8.12:—Medic., know before being told, declare unaided, “τά τε παρεόντα καὶ τὰ προγεγονότα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα ἔσεσθαι” Hp. Prog.1; τοὺς καιρούς Id.Aër.2.
2. prognosticate, “π. χειμῶνα αἱ μέλιτται” Arist.HA627b10.
3. foreknow, “λαόν” Ep.Rom.11.2, al.
4. c. gen., π. τῶν θεῶν learn things in advance of . . , Philostr.VA8.7.
II. judge beforehand, “ἐς τὸ μέλλον καλὸν π.” Th.2.64; provide, τι X.Cyr.2.4.11:—Pass., παρὰ τῷ διαιτητῇ προεγνωσμένος ἀδικεῖν judged beforehand to have done wrong, D.29.58, cf. Inscr.Délos 502 A 12(iii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus, 58
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1072
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 257
    • New Testament, Romans, 11.2
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 203d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.64
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.4.11
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 8.12
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 1
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 8.7
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