προβολή

A. putting forward, esp. of a weapon for defence, τὰ δόρατα εἰς προβολὴν καθιέναι to bring the spears to the rest, couch them, X. An. 6.5.25 (nisi leg. προσβολήν); [τὰ δόρατα] ἀποτεῖναι ἐς π. Arr. An. 1.6.2; κοντοὺς ὀρθοὺς ὡς ἐς π. φέροντες Id. Tact. 43.2; ἵστανται ἐς π. ib.36.3; ἐν προβολᾷ θεμένα ξίφος bringing it to the guard, AP 7.433 (Tymn.); ὁπλίτας ἑστῶτας ἐν π. standing with spear in rest, Plu. Caes. 44, cf. Plb. 2.65.11; ὑπελθεῖν τὴν π. τοῦ πολεμίου get under his guard, D.H. 3.19; of a pugilist, δοχμὸς ἀπὸ π. κλινθείς Theoc. 22.120; παγκρατίου προβολὰν διδάξαι IG 42(1).122.53 (Epid., iv B.C.), cf.7.2470.3 (Thebes, iv/iii B.C.); Carneades προβολὴν pugilis . . similem facit ἐποχῇ Cic. Att. 13.21.3; ἀνέχοντες ἐν π. τὰς χεῖρας, of long-distance runners, Philostr. Gym. 32; ἡ π. τῶν χειρῶν, of boxers, ib.34; αἱ π. τοῦ σώματος X. Cyn. 10.22; ἡ τῆς φάλαγγος π. the phalanx with its pikes couched, Plb. 18.30.1; αἱ τῶν θυρεῶν π. Id. 1.22.10, cf. Arr. Tact. 37.5; of the legs, putting foremost, Arist. IA 706a6.

2. putting forth, βλαστοῦ Gp. 5.25.1.

3. putting forward of a plea or case, Hermog. Stat. 4, al.

II. projection, prominence, ἡ π. τοῦ χείλεος Hp. Art. 8, etc.; τῆς κεφαλῆς a prominence of the skull, Id. VC 1; τῆς γλώσσης Aret. SA 1.7; π. ἀπὸ τοῦ χείλεος, of an elephant's trunk, Id. SD 2.13, cf. Ael. NA 5.41.

2. jutting rock, foreland, or tongue of land, S. Ph. 1455 (anap., prob. for προβλής)ἐπὶ προβολῇσι θαλάσσης Q.S. 9.378, cf. D.P. 1013, Plb. 1.53.10; Νειλορύτου δῶρον ἀπὸ π., i.e. from the Delta of the Nile, AP 9.350 (Leon.Alex.); also the spurof a hill, Plu. Crass. 22.

3. head of a spear or κέστρος 11, Plb. 18.29.3, 27.11.2.

4. projecting bridge, Id. 3.46.4.

5. projection of a weapon from the soldier's body, Ael. Tact. 14.3.

6. advanced body of cavalry, Arr. Tact. 40.2, al.

7. rope for lowering buckets, PFlor. 153 (iii A.D.), etc.

III. thing held before one as a defence, screen, bulwark, π. μεγάλη τῆς χώρας X. Mem. 3.5.27; of the eyebrows, Id. Cyn. 5.26; τοῦ ὄμματος Arist. GA 780b23; ὅπως ᾖ π. τοῖς . . σπλάγχνοις [τὸ νῶτον] Id. PA 672a17: c.gen. objecti, defence against . . , δείματος π. καὶ βελέων S. Aj. 1212 (lyr.); θανάτου E. Or. 1488 (lyr.); καυμάτων Pl. Ti. 74b; τοῦ ἡλίου, τῶν ἀνέμων, τοῦ ψύχους, Thphr. CP 2.7.4, 3.10.4, 5.13.3; πρὸς τοὺς χειμῶνας ib.3.7.2.

2. protection, τὰ προβολῆς ἕνεκα εἰργασμένα Pl. Plt. 288b; π. ἔχειν, of plants, Thphr. CP 3.20.5; προβεβλημένοι τὴν γαμικὴν π. Dam. Isid. 160.

3. front of a horse's hoof, Hippiatr. 123.

IV. proposal of a person's name for election, Pl. Lg. 765b, SIG 976.10 (Samos, ii B.C.), CPR 20.8 (iii A.D.), Cod.Just. 10.11.8.4, al., Ps.-Ptol. Centil. 83.

V. as law-term, a form of public process by presentation of a case to the assembly, D. 21.193: pl., ib.11, Lex ib.8, 10; τῶν συκοφαντῶν π. ἐποιησάμεθα Aeschin. 2.145, cf. X. HG 1.7.35, Isoc. 15.314, Arist. Ath. 43.5, 59.2, Harp. s.v. καταχειροτονία.

VI. advance, loan, PSI 6.666.10 (iii B.C.); π. εἰς τὸ ζῆν financial provision, means of livelihood, gloss on ἀφορμή, Sch.E. Med. 342.