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προπύλ-αιος [υ^], α, ον, (πύλη)
A.before the gate, of the statues of gods, “Ἀγυιεῦ τοὐμοῦ προθύρου προπύλαιε” Ar.V.875; “π. Ἑρμῆς” Paus.1.22.8; “Ἄρτεμις” Id.1.38.6.
II. προπύλαια, τά, gateway, entrance, of Egyptian temples, Hdt.2.63, 101, 121, etc.; on the Acropolis at Athens, IG12.92.34, 366.45, Hdt.5.77, Ar.Eq.1326, Th.2.13, D.13.28, 22.13, Aeschin.2.105, Plu.Per.13; at Eleusis, “τὰ π. τῆς Δήμητρος καὶ τῆς Κόρης” IG22.1187.25; at Epidaurus, ib.42(I).742.23 (ii/iii A.D., prob.): also in sg., “τὸ τοῦ Διονύσου π.” And.1.38, cf.IG12.363.2, 22.1668.5, D.S.1.67, AP6.297（Phan.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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