[Meaning] intemperate.[1] "Being forward in his judgment on account of his experience he said that it was important not to hesitate, but to meet the enemy and to engage them in naval battle."[2]
Also one who is ready is called 'forward'.[3]
*pro/xeiros: a)krath/s. o( de\ pro/xeiros w)\n th\n gnw/mhn dia\ th\n e)mpeiri/an ou) me/llein e)/fh dei=n, a)ll' a)panta=n kai\ naumaxei=n toi=s polemi/ois. kai\ o( e(/toimos le/getai pro/xeiros.
The same adjective as in
pi 2930 and
pi 2932, but in a different sense.
[1] cf.
Pollux 8.80.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable. Adler notes that the Dutch scholar
Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766) attributed it to
Polybius (who has several instances of the headword adjective, including
pi 2932). She also reports a textual discrepancy in its second clause: four of the mss have 'to deceive [
a)pata=n] the enemy', but 'to meet' (ms A), a difference of one letter in the Greek, does look better.
[3] cf.
Hesychius pi4086 (also pi4085, pi4087); ps.-Herodian,
Epimerismi 38.2;
Pollux 1.43, 5.107; Galen 16.560.8.
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