προδείκνυμι

A. show by example, by doing something first, προδέξαντες σχῆμα, οἷόν τι ἔμελλε εὐπρεπέστατον φανέεσθαι ἔχουσα Hdt. 1.60; τὸν ζωστῆρα προδέξας having shown [the way of] the girdle, Id. 4.10.

2. abs., tell first, A. Pr. 779, S. OT 624.

II. foreshow what is about to happen, πάντα τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα Hdt. 1.209; Ἕλλησι π. ὁ θεὸς ἔκλειψιν τῶν πολίων Id. 7.37, cf. 6.27; προφαίνει καρπὸν . . μέχρι τοῦ προδεῖξαι μόνον Thphr. CP 1.13.10: c. acc. et inf., make known beforehand that . . , Th. 3.47; π. ὅτι . . Plu. Phoc. 28; προδεδειγμένου it having been already shown, A.D Synt. 336.16.

III. point before one, σκήπτρῳ π. γαῖαν, of a blind man, S. OT 456; π. τὸ τόξον put it out before one, Luc. Herc. 1, cf.Herm. 68; π. δελεάσματα hold out baits, Them. Or. 22.271c; π. χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς ib.7.91c.

2. as a technical term of pugilists, χερσὶ π. make feints with the hands, Theoc. 22.102; also in war, X. Eq.Mag. 8.24; π. τινὰς ἐπιβολάς Plb. 2.66.2; of the cuttle-fish, π. εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν Arist. HA 621b34.