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προσωτέρω , Att. πορρωτέρω ( πορρώτερον v.l. in Arist.Mu.397b35; late προσώτερον , Iamb.Myst.5.9), Comp. of πρόσω,
A.further on, ἔτι π. Hdt.2.175, 4.7; ἐπιδιώκειν ἔτι π. Id.8.111; “π. ἀπεῖναι” Hp.Art. 46; αἱ πορρ. πόλεις the more distant, Plb.5.34.8: c.gen., further than, Hdt.4.16, etc.; “πορρ. τοῦ καιροῦ” X.HG7.5.13; “π. εἰπεῖν τούτων” Hdt. 6.124; “πορρ. τοῦ δέοντος” Pl.R.562d; “πορρ. τῶν τριτείων” Id.Phlb.22e: also with the Art., τὸ προσωτέρω πορεύεσθαι, πλέειν, Hdt.1.105, 3.45, etc.; “τὸ π. τούτων” Id.2.103.
2. further from, “τῶν πυλῶν” Plu. Cam.4.
II. Sup. προσωτάτω ( προσώτατα Hdt.2.103, S.El.391), Att. πορρωτάτω , furthest, “ἀποπτύουσιν ὡς δύνανται πορρωτάτω” X. Mem.1.2.54; “ὅτι π. ταχθέντες” Id.Cyr.2.1.11; τὰ προσωτάτω when furthest distant, Hdt.4.43; “προσώτατα ἀπικέσθαι” Id.2.103; “δραμοῦσα τοῦ προσωτάτω” S.Aj.731; ὅπως ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν ὡς προσώτατ᾽ ἐκφύγω as far as possible, Id.El.391.
2. c. gen., furthest from, “ὅτι πορρωτάτω τοῦ βουλευομένου κατοικοῦν” Pl.Ti.70e; “ἐμαυτὸν ὡς πορρωτάτω ποιῆσαι τῶν ὑποψιῶν” Isoc.3.37; also “ὡς πορρ. ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως” Id.17.19.
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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