The corpus record

ἐμπρόσθ-ιος

emprosthios

fore, in front, preceding

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ἐμπρόσθ-ιος · emprosth-ios — LSJ

fore, in front

fore, like πρόσθιος, of the feet of a quadruped, opp. ὀπίσθιοι, ἐ. πόδες Hdt. 4.60; σκέλη X. Eq. 11.2, Arist. PA 688a12, BCH 35.286 (Delos); κῶλα Arist. PA 687b28; οἱ ἐ. ὀδόντες Id. Ph. 198b25; ἐ. τραύματα wounds in front, D.H. 10.37.

II preceding

Astron., preceding in the daily motion of the heavens, Cleom. 1.1.

In the wild

ἐμπροσθίους · emprosthious Herodotus, Histories 2.69.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2038)
ἐμπροσθίους · emprosthious Herodotus, Histories 4.60.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4435)
ἐμπρόσθια · emprosthia Plato, Timaeus 92 (DIORISIS sentence 890)
ἐμπροσθίων · emprosthiōn Septuaginta, Exodus 28
ἐμπροσθίους · emprosthious Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 3
ἐμπρόσθια · emprosthia Septuaginta, Regnorum I 5 (DIORISIS sentence 99)

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