A.“πρωνός” Id.2.35.4, al. codd., AP9.328 (Damostr.); Ep. dat. pl. “πρώνεσσι” Q.S.4.520:—foreland, headland, Hom. only in Il., “πρὼν ἰσχάνει ὕδωρ ὑλήεις” 17.747: elsewh. in pl. πρώονες, 8.557, 12.282, 16.299; later, “πρώονές τε καὶ χαράδραι” Alcm.60.2, cf. Q.S.2.120; “πρῶνες ἔξοχοι” Pi.N.4.52; “Λοκρῶν πρῶνες” S.Tr.788; “Πόσειδον, ὃς Αἰγαίου μέδεις πρῶνας” Id.Fr. 371 (lyr.); “ἔρημοι πρῶνες ἀνθρώπων” E.Cyc.116; πορθμοῦ κάτοπτον πρῶνα, of Geraneia, A.Ag.307; ἀμφοτέρας ἅλιον πρῶνα κοινὸν αἴας, forelands on both sides of the Hellespont, Id.Pers.132 (lyr.); π. ἅλιος, of the Troad, ib.879; Δελφὸς π., of Parnassus, Pae.Delph.7:—Ep. also πρηών , ῶνος“, ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀπὸ μεγάλου πέτρη πρηῶνος ὀρούσῃ” Hes.Sc. 437, cf. Nic.Al.104, D.P.116, Coluth.14,102: dat. pl. “πρηόσιν” Call. Dian.52: in later Prose, Ant.Lib.11.1, 23.5; also πρεών , όνος, AP6.253 (Crin.). (Orig. πρηών , όνος, whence πρεών , όνος and ῶνος, also (contr.) πρών , πρῶνος, pl. πρῶνες (then, by 'distraction' of ω and its accent, πρώονες).)
πρών , ὁ, gen. πρῶνος (as pr. n., Paus.2.34.11 codd.),
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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