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προδίδωμι ,
A.give beforehand, pay in advance, X.HG1.5.7, IG22.1304.34; προεδίδου cj. for προσ- in Plb.8.15.7; προδιδούς, opp. ἐπιδιδούς, Gal.12.174; give first, Ep.Rom.11.35:—Pass., Arist.Oec.1350a36; “τῶν -δεδομένων τιμῶνInscr.Prien.107.17, cf. GDI5181.34(Crete); of a menu-tablet, Ath.2.49d.
3. abs., play false, desert, Hdt.5.113, 6.15, etc.; οὔτοι προδώσει χρησμός will not prove traitor, A.Ch.269; “χάρις . . προδοῦσ᾽ ἁλίσκεταιS.Aj.1267; ἢν προδιδῶσι πρὸς τοὺς κατιόντας treat treasonably with them, Hdt.3.45: c. acc. cogn., “προδοσίαν π.to be guilty of treachery, Din.1.10.
4. with a thing as subject, betray, fail one, [“αἱ κάτω πλίνθοι] π. τὰς ἄνωX.HG5.2.5; “ ὀφθαλμὸς π. τινάD.52.13: intr.,fail, of wine, Xenoph. 1.5; of a river, run dry, Hdt.7.187; of a barricade that has proved useless, Id.8.52.
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