προπάθεια

A. preliminary experience, anticipation, ἐλπίς ἐστι π. τις Ph. Fr. 17 H.: pl., anticipations of suffering, Plu. 2.666d; premonitory symptoms of disease, ib.127c.
2. previous experience, Id. Fr. 7.10.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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