προίξ

A. gift, present, in Hom. only gen. προικός, as Adv., ἀργαλέον ἕνα προικὸς χαρίσασθαι burdensome is it for a single person to give of his bounty, without reimbursement, Od. 13.15; ἔμελλεν . . προικὸς γεύσεσθαι Ἀχαιῶν was like ly to make trial of the Achaeans with impunity, 17.413 (unless π. γ. = taste the gift).

2. after Hom., marriage-porlion, dowry, Hippon.(?)72, And. 4.14, Lys. 19.9, Pl. Lg. 774c, al.; ἐν τῇ προικὶ τετιμημένα reckoned as part of the dowry, D. 47.57; ἀποτετιμημένα προικὸς τῇ διοδώρου θυγατρί IG 22.2675.

II. acc. προῖκα as Adv., as a free gift, freely, at one's own cost, Ar. Eq. 577,679, Nu. 1426; π. ἐργάζεσθαι Pl. R. 346e; ἀρετὴ τὸ π. τοῖς φίλοις ὑπηρετεῖν Antiph. 210; π. κρίνειν, πρεσβεύειν, without a gift, unbribed, D. 5.12, 19.232, cf. IG 3.702, etc.; παῖς . . κακὸν μὲν δρᾶν τι προῖκ’ ἐπίσταται of oneself, without a teacher, [S.]Fr. 1120.

6.

2. π. τῆς δόξης to say nothing of, in addition to, Plu. 2.349e.