προκαίω

A. burn before, in Pass., to be lighted before, of fires, f.l. in X. An. 7.2.18; to be burnt first, aor. subj. ‐καῇ (v.l. ‐καυθῇ) Aët. 15.14.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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