πρωτεύω

A. to be the first, hold first place, And. 4.41 (s.v.l.), Pl. Lg. 692d, Arist. EN 1124b23; οἱ πρωτεύοντες the primates or chief men in a city, Hdn. 8.7.2, cf. Isoc. 5.68; hold position of πρῶτος (q.v.), MAMA 4.151 (Apollonia); π. τοῦ ἔθνους OGI 563.6 (Cadyanda).

II. with a modal word added, to be first in a thing, καρτερίᾳ X. Ages. 10.1; βδελυρίᾳ Aeschin. 1.192; γένει Is. 1.21; ἐν ἕδρᾳ X. Cyr. 8.4.5; περὶ κακίαν Aeschin. 2.159; φιλίᾳ π. παρὰ τῷ Κύρῳ X. Cyr. 8.2.28, cf. Isoc. 3.60; ἐν τούτοις (sc. ἐπιτηδεύμασιν) Id. 7.48.

2. c. gen. pers., to be first of or among, Ἑλλήνων ib.6; τῶν ῥητόρων Aeschin. 1.171, cf. X. Ages. 1.3; π. Ἑλλάδος εἰς ἀρετήν Epigr.Gr. 489: also π. ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι Isoc. 8.24; ἐν τῷ δήμῳ D. 19.297.

III. = προτερέω, excel, π. τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ταῖς κυνηγεσίαις D.S. 4.81.