a+funeral+procession

προπομπ-ός, όν,

A escorting, esp. in procession,

λόχος X.Cyr.4.5.17

: c. acc., χοὰς π. carrying drink-offerings in procession, A.Ch.23(lyr.).

II Subst., conductor, escort, protector, Id.Pers. 1036 (lyr.), X.Cyr.3.1.2; of Hermes, Alex.89; of the Furies, A.Eu. 206; of priestesses of Athena, ib. 1005(anap.); of attendants in a funeral procession, Id.Th. 1074 (anap.);

π. τιρώνων PLips.35.5

(iv A.D., cf. Arch.Pap.3.563).

προπέμπω, [tense] aor. προέπεμψα, [var] contr. προὔπεμψα,

A send before, send forward or forth,

πρό μ' ἔπεμψεν ἄναξ Il.1.442

;

εὖτέ μιν εἰς Ἀΐδαο.. προὔπεμψεν 8.367

, cf. Od.17.54, 117, 24.360;

π. κήρυκας Hdt.1.60

, cf. 4.33 ([voice] Pass.), 121, Th.1.29, S.El. 1158, etc.;

π. πρὸ τοῦ στρατεύματος ἄνδρας X.Cyr.2.4.23

:—[voice] Med., ib.5.3.53, An.7.2.14:—[voice] Pass., impers.,

προπέπεμπται Th.7.77

.

b with a thing for the object,

τινὶ φήμας π. S.El. 1155

;

ξίφος

afford, furnish,

Id.Ph. 1205

(lyr.);

π. ἄχη

cause,

Id.Ant. 1287

(lyr.).

2 of things, send forth,

σποδὸς π. πίονας πλούτου πνοάς A.Ag. 820

;

ἰοὺς ἀφύκτους καὶ προπέμποντας φόνον S.Ph. 105

.

II conduct, escort, esp. a departing traveller, Hdt.1.111,3.50, S.OC 1667, Antipho1.16, Thphr. Char.5.2, etc.;

τινὰ ἐς δόμους A.Pers. 530

;

νύμφην π. X.HG4.1.9

, etc.; π. τινὰ χθονός from the land, E. Hipp. 1099;

π. τινὰ μέλεσιν καὶ μολπαῖσιν Ar.Ra. 1525

(anap.);

π. τινὰ τοῖς ἵπποις X.An.7.2.8

;

τοῖς προπέμπουσι καμήλοις Πολύκαρπον PFlor. 206.2

(iii A. D.); esp. follow a corpse to the grave,

τινὰ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ A. Th. 1064

(anap.);

Καρικῇ μούσῃ τοὺς τελευτήσαντας Pl.Lg. 800e

; τιμὰς π. θεοῖς carry offerings in procession, A.Pers. 622: jocosely, τὸν ἕνα ψωμὸν ἑνὶ ὄψῳ π. let one piece of bread be attended by one condiment, X.Mem.3.14.6:—[voice] Pass., Isoc.4.148; of a funeral procession,

- πεμφθέντες κοινῇ ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως Pl.Mx. 236d

; πανδημεὶ προπεμπομένους ἐπὶ θάνατον, of the Minotaur's victims, Isoc.10.27;

ὑπὸ ποιητικῆς ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν Plu.2.37b

.

2 pursue, X.HG7.2.13.

παραπομπ-ή, ἡ,

A convoying, σίτου Decr. ap. D.18.73 ; ἡ κατὰ θάλασσαν π. Onos.6.14.

2 escort, convoy,

π. δώσειν Arist. Oec. 1351b24

; πέμψαι, ἐξαποστέλλειν, Plb.30.9.13, 15.5.7 ;

παραπομπῆς τυχεῖν D.S.20.45

, cf. PSI5.446.12 (ii A. D.) : pl.,

παραπομπαὶ ὄχλων Ph.1.592

; of a funeral procession,

π. καὶ κηδεία IG12(7).239.32

([place name] Amorgos) ; of athletes, being escorted by a body of supporters, Charito 6.2.

II transport, conveyance, αἱ τῶν καρπῶν π., whether by importation or exportation, Arist.Pol. 1327a8 ; ἑκάστης ἡμέρας π. ἐγίγνοντο supplies were introduced, X.HG7.2.23 ;

π. ποιεῖν τῶν ἰχθύων Antiph.190.15

; παραπέμψαι τὴν π. X.HG7.2.18 ; συμπαραπέμπειν τὴν εἰς Φλιοῦντα π. Aeschin.2.168.

2 production, ἡ ἔξω π. bringing forth the statue from the mould, Ph.2.318.

συμπρο-πέμπω,

A join in escorting, τινα Hdt.9.1, Ar.Ra. 404, 410, X.Cyr.1.6.1, etc.;

σ. τινὰ ναυσίν Th.1.27

; τὸ σῶμά τινος, in funeral procession, D.H.8.59.

ἀρχή, ῆς, ἡ (Hom.+)

① the commencement of someth. as an action, process, or state of being, beginning, i.e. a point of time at the beginning of a duration.

ⓐ gener. (opp. τέλος; cp. Diod S 16, 1, 1 ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς μέχρι τοῦ τέλους; Ael. Aristid. 30, 24 K.=10 p. 123 D.: ἐξ ἀ. εἰς τέλος; Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 9, §36; Wsd 7:18) B 1:6; IEph 14:1; IMg 13:1; IRo 1:2, cp. vs. 1. W. gen. foll. (OGI 458, 10 life) ἡμέρας ὀγδόης B 15:8; ἡμερῶν (2 Km 14:26) Hb 7:3; τῶν σημείων first of the signs J 2:11 (ἀ. τοῦ ἡμετέρου δόγματος Orig., C. Cels. 2, 4, 20; cp. Isocr., Paneg. 10:38 Blass ἀλλʼ ἀρχὴν μὲν ταύτην ἐποιήσατο τ. εὐεργεσιῶν, τροφὴν τοῖς δεομένοις εὑρεῖν=but [Athens] made this the starting point of her benefactions: to provide basic needs for livelihood; Pr 8:22; Jos., Ant. 8, 229 ἀ. κακῶν); ὠδίνων Mt 24:8; Mk 13:8; κακῶν ISm 7:2. As the beginning, i.e. initial account, in a book (Ion of Chios [V B.C.] 392 Fgm. 24 Jac. [=Leurini no. 114] ἀρχὴ τοῦ λόγου; Polystrat. p. 28; Diod S 17, 1, 1 ἡ βύβλος τὴν ἀ. ἔσχε ἀπὸ …; Ael. Aristid. 23, 2 K.=42 p. 768 D.: ἐπʼ ἀρχῇ τοῦ συγγράμματος; Diog. L. 3, 37 ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς Πολιτείας; cp. Sb 7696, 53; 58 [250 A.D.]) ἀ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Ἰ. Χ. Beginning of the gospel of J. C. Mk 1:1 (cp. Hos 1:2 ἀ. λόγου κυρίου πρὸς Ὡσηέ; s. RHarris, Exp. 8th ser., 1919, 113–19; 1920, 142–50; 334–50; FDaubanton, NThSt 2, 1919, 168–70; AvanVeldhuizen, ibid., 171–75; EEidem, Ingressen til Mkevangeliet: FBuhl Festschr. 1925, 35–49; NFreese, StKr 104, ’32, 429–38; AWikgren, JBL 61, ’42, 11–20 [ἀρχή=summary]; LKeck, NTS 12, ’65/66, 352–70). ἀ. τῆς ὑποστάσεως original commitment Hb 3:14. ἀρχὴν ἔχειν w. gen. of the inf. begin to be someth. IEph 3:1. ἀρχὴν λαμβάνειν begin (Polyb.; Aelian, VH 2, 28; 12, 53; Diog. L., Prooem. 3, 4; Sext. Emp., Phys. 1, 366; Philo, Mos. 1, 81) λαλεῖσθαι to be proclaimed at first Hb 2:3; cp. IEph 19:3.—W. prep. ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς from the beginning (Paus. 3, 18, 2; SIG 741, 20; UPZ 160, 15 [119 B.C.]; BGU 1141, 44; JosAs 23:4; Jos., Ant. 8, 350; 9, 30) J 6:64 v.l.; 15:27; 1J 2:7, 24; 3:11; 2J 5f; Ac 26:4; MPol 17:1; Hs 9, 11, 9; Dg 12:3. οἱ ἀπʼ ἀ. αὐτόπται those who fr. the beginning were eyewitnesses Lk 1:2. Also ἐξ ἀρχῆς (Diod. Sic. 18, 41, 7; Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 45 [189]; SIG 547, 9; 634, 4; UPZ 185 II 5; PGen 7, 8; BGU 1118, 21; Jos., Bell. 7, 358) J 6:64; 16:4; 1 Cl 19:2; Pol 7:2; Dg 2:1. πάλιν ἐξ ἀ. (Ael. Aristid. 21, 10 K.=22 p. 443 D.; SIG 972, 174) again fr. the beginning (=afresh, anew; a common expr., Renehan ’75, 42) B 16:8. ἐν ἀρχῇ (Diod S 19, 110, 5; Palaeph. p. 2, 3; OGI 56, 57; PPetr II, 37, 2b verso, 4; PTebt 762, 9; POxy 1151, 15; BGU 954, 26; ViHab 14 [p. 87, 4 Sch.]) at the beginning, at first Ac 11:15; AcPlCor 2:4. ἐν ἀ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου when the gospel was first preached Phil 4:15; sim., word for word, w. ref. to beg. of 1 Cor: 1 Cl 47:2.—τὴν ἀ. J 8:25, as nearly all the Gk. fathers understood it, is emphatically used adverbially=ὅλως at all (Plut., Mor. 115b; Dio Chrys. 10 [11], 12; 14 [31], 5; 133; Lucian, Eunuch. 6 al.; Ps.-Lucian, Salt. 3; POxy 472, 17 [c. 130 A.D.]; Philo, Spec. Leg. 3, 121; Jos., Ant. 1, 100; 15, 235 al.; as a rule in neg. clauses, but the negation can inhere in the sense: 48th letter of Apollonius of Tyana [Philostrat. I 356, 17]; Philo, Abrah. 116, Decal. 89; Ps.-Clem., Hom. 6, 11; without art. ApcSed 10:3; cp. Hs 2:5 cj. by W., endorsed by Joly; s. Field, Notes, 93f) τὴν ἀ. ὅτι καὶ λαλῶ ὑμῖν (how is it) that I even speak to you at all? But s. B-D-F §300, 2. More prob. the mng. is somewhat as follows: What I said to you from the first (so NT in Basic English; sim. REB et al.; cp. τὴν ἀρχήν ‘at the beginning’ Thu 2, 74, 2; s. also RFunk, HTR 51, ’58, 95–100; B-D-F §300, 2, but appeal to P⁶⁶ is specious, s. EMiller, TZ 36, ’80, 261).

ⓑ beginning, origin in the abs. sense (ἀ. τῆς τῶν πάντων ὑποστάσεως Orig. C. Cels. 6, 65, 4) ἀ. πάντων χαλεπῶν Pol 4:1; ἀ. κακῶν ISm 7:2 (cp. 1 Ti 6:10, which has ῥίζα for ἀ., and s. e.g. Ps 110:10; Sir 10:13); ἀ. κόσμου B 15:8; ἀ. πάντων PtK 2, p. 13, 21. ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς fr. the very beginning (Is 43:13; Wsd 9:8; 12:11; Sir 24:9 al.; PsSol 8:31; GrBar 17:2) Mt 19:4, 8; J 8:44; 1J 1:1 (of the Hist. beg. of Christianity: HWendt, D. Johannesbriefe u. d. joh. Christent. 1925, 31f; HWindisch, Hdb. ad loc.; difft. HConzelmann, RBultmann Festschr., ’54, 194–201); 3:8; 2 Th 2:13; ὁ ἀπʼ ἀ. 1J 2:13f; Dg 11:4; οἱ ἀπʼ ἀ. those at the very beginning, the first people 12:3; τὰ ἀπʼ ἀ. γενόμενα 1 Cl 31:1; ἀπʼ ἀ. κτίσεως Mk 10:6; 13:19; 2 Pt 3:4 (on ἀ. κτίσεως cp. En 15:9); ἀπʼ ἀ. κόσμου Mt 24:21. Also ἐξ ἀ. (X., Mem. 1, 4, 5; Ael. Aristid. 43, 9 K.=1 p. 3 D. [of the existence of Zeus]; TestAbr A 15 p. 96, 11 [Stone p. 40]; B 4 p. 109, 7 [St. p. 66]; Ath., R. 16, p. 67, 18; Philo, Aet. M. 42, Spec. Leg. 1, 300; Did., Gen. 50, 1) Dg 8:11; ἐν ἀ. in the beginning (Simplicius in Epict. p. 104, 2; Did., Gen. 29, 25 al.) J 1:1f; ἐν ἀ. τῆς κτίσεως B 15:3. κατʼ ἀρχάς in the beg. Hb 1:10 (Ps 101:26; cp. Hdt. 3, 153 et al.; Diod S; Plut.; Philo, Leg. All. 3, 92, Det. Pot. Insid. 118; Ps 118:152; Just., D. 2, 3).

② one with whom a process begins, beginning fig., of pers. (Gen 49:3 Ῥουβὴν σὺ ἀρχὴ τέκνων μου; Dt 21:17): of Christ Col 1:18. W. τέλος of God or Christ Rv 1:8 v.l.; 21:6; 22:13 (Hymn to Selene 35 ἀ. καὶ τέλος εἶ: Orphica p. 294, likew. PGM 4, 2836; 13, 362; 687; Philo, Plant. 93; Jos., Ant. 8, 280; others in Rtzst., Poim. 270ff and cp. SIG 1125, 7–11 Αἰών, … ἀρχὴν μεσότητα τέλος οὐκ ἔχων, expressed from the perspective of historical beginning).

③ the first cause, the beginning (philos. t.t. ODittrich, D. Systeme d. Moral I 1923, 360a, 369a;—Ael. Aristid. 43, 9 K.=1 p. 3 D.: ἀρχὴ ἁπάντων Ζεύς τε καὶ ἐκ Διὸς πάντα; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 190 God as ἀρχὴ κ. μέσα κ. τέλος τῶν πάντων [contrast SIG 1125, 10f]) of Christ ἡ ἀ. τῆς κτίσεως Rv 3:14; but the mng. beginning=‘first created’ is linguistically probable (s. above 1b and Job 40:19; also CBurney, Christ as the Ἀρχή of Creation: JTS 27, 1926, 160–77). [ὁ γὰ]ρ π̣̄ρ̣̄ (=πατὴρ) [ἀρ]|χή ἐ[ς]τ̣[ιν τῶν μ]ελλόν|των for the Father is the source of all who are to come into being in contrast to the προπάτωρ, who is without a beginning Ox 1081, 38f (SJCh 91, 1 ἀρχή; on the context, s. WTill, TU 60/5, ’55 p. 57).

④ a point at which two surfaces or lines meet, corner (from the perspective of an observer the object appears to begin at that point), pl. corners of a sheet Ac 10:11; 11:5 (cp. Hdt. 4, 60; Diod S 1, 35, 10).

⑤ a basis for further understanding, beginning τὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς ἀ. elementary principles Hb 5:12 (perh. w. an element of gentle satire: ‘the discrete items or ABC’s that compose the very beginning [of divine instructions]’; cp. MKiley, SBLSP 25, ’86, 236–45, esp. 239f). ὁ τῆς ἀ. τοῦ Χ. λόγος elementary Christian teaching 6:1.

⑥ an authority figure who initiates activity or process, ruler, authority (Aeschyl., Thu. et al.; ins; pap, e.g. PHal 1, 226 μαρτυρείτω ἐπὶ τῇ ἀρχῇ καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ δικαστηρίῳ; Gen 40:13, 21; 41:13; 2 Macc 4:10, 50 al., s. Magie 26; so as a loanw. in rabb. ἀ. = νόμιμος ἐπιστασία Did., Gen. 60, 9) w. ἐξουσία Lk 20:20; pl. (Oenomaus in Eus., PE 6, 7, 26 ἀρχαὶ κ. ἐξουσίαι; 4 Macc 8:7; Jos., Ant. 4, 220) Lk 12:11; Tit 3:1; MPol 10:2 (αἱ ἀρχαί can also be the officials as persons, as those who took part in the funeral procession of Sulla: Appian, Bell. Civ. 1, 106 §497.—The same mng. 2, 106 §442; 2, 118 §498 al. Likewise Diod S 34+35 Fgm. 2, 31).—Also of angelic or transcendent powers, since they were thought of as having a political organization (Damascius, Princ. 96 R.) Ro 8:38; 1 Cor 15:24; Eph 1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Col 1:16; 2:10, 15; AcPl Ha 1, 7. Cp. TestJob 49, 2; Just., D. 120, 6 end.

⑦ the sphere of one’s official activity, rule, office (Diod S 3, 53, 1; Appian, Bell. Civ. 1, 13 §57; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 177, Ant. 19, 273), or better domain, sphere of influence (Diod S 17, 24, 2; Appian, Syr. 23 §111; Arrian, Anab. 6, 29, 1; Polyaen. 8:55; Procop. Soph., Ep. 139) of angels Jd 6. Papias (4 v.l. for ἄρχω).—S. the lit. on ἄγγελος and HSchlier, Mächte u. Gewalten im NT: ThBl 9, 1930, 289–97.—144–50 (‘Archai’). EDNT. DELG s.v. ἄρχω D. M-M. TW. Sv.

πέπλος, ὁ, in late Poets also with heterocl. pl. πέπλα, AP9.616, Epigr.Gr.418 ([place name] Cyrene):—

A any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, to cover a chariot, funeral-urn, seat, Il.5.194, 24.796, Od.7.96 ; laid over the face of the dead, E.Tr. 627, cf. Hec. 432, Ion 1421.

II upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women,

π. ἑανός, ποικίλος Il.5.734

, cf. Batr.182, Od.18.292, X.Cyr.5.1.6.

2 at Athens, the embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea, IG12.80.11 ;

τὸν π... ἕλκουσ', ὀνεύοντες.. εἰς ἄκρον ὥσπερ ἱστίον τὸν ἱστόν Stratt.30

;

ὁ π. μεστὸς τῶν τοιούτων ποικιλμάτων Pl.Euthphr.6c

, cf. E.Hec. 468, Ar.Eq. 566, Arist.Ath.49.3, 60.1.

b metaph. of a mythological work by Aristotle, Porph. ap. Eust.285.25 : pl., Tz.ad Lyc.488.

3 less freq. of a man's robe, esp. of long Persian dresses, A.Pers. 468, 1030 (lyr.), 1060 (lyr.), X.Cyr.3.1.13 ; a man's cloak or robe, S.Tr. 602, al., E.Cyc. 301, Theoc.7.17.

III peritoneum, dub. in Orph.A. 312.

IV wartweed, Euphorbia Peplus, Hp.Superf.32, Dsc.4.167.