πρόνοια (pronoia)
Short definition (LSJ): foresight, forethought, ἐπῄνεσ’ . . πρόνοιαν ἣν ἔθου
Full entry: Lexicon.
135 occurrences of this form in 59 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- Library of History
- Meditations
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Histories
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Discourses
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- 4 Maccabees
- The Jewish War, Book 1
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- The Phoenician Women
- Life of Pythagoras
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 12
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 20
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 5
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 7
- The Jewish War, Book 3
- The Jewish War, Book 5
- The Life of Josephus
- Against Flaccus
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- 3 Maccabees
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Fragments
- Andromache
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- On the Mysteries
- Against Apion, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 10
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 13
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 14
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- The Jewish War, Book 2
- The Jewish War, Book 7
- Against Simon
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Phaedrus
- Timaeus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- On the Education of Children
- Letter to Marcella
- Oedipus Rex
- Cyropaedia
Example passages
……τῶν ἐφ̓ ἑκάτερα κατὰ φύσιν, οἷον ἐν στρατηγίαις ἡγουμένου μὲν τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, συμπνεόντων δὲ τῶν συντεταγμένων. ἐτάχθη δὲ τὸ πᾶν προνοίᾳ στρατηγικῇ ὁρώσῃ καὶ τὰς πράξεις καὶ τὰ πάθη καὶ ἃ δεῖ παρεῖναι, σιτία καὶ ποτὰ καὶ δὴ καὶ ὅπλα πάντα καὶ μηχανήματα, καὶ ὅσα ἐξ αὐτῶν συμπλεκομένων προεώραται, ἵνα τὸ ἐκ τούτων συμβαῖνον ἔχῃ χώραν……
…ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἅμμος ἐκ τοῦ κατʼ ὀλίγον πατουμένη τὴν ἔνδοσιν λαμβάνει, καὶ τοὺς ἐπιβάλλοντας ὥσπερ προνοίᾳ τινὶ πονηρᾷ παρακρούεται, μέχρι ἂν ὅτου λαβόντες ὑπόνοιαν τοῦ συμβησομένου βοηθήσωσιν ἑαυτοῖς, οὐκ οὔσης ἔτι φυγῆς οὐδὲ σωτηρίας.…
…Τὰ τῶν θεῶν προνοίας μεστά. τὰ τῆς τύχης οὐκ ἄνευ φύσεως ἢ συγκλώσεως καὶ ἐπιπλοκῆς τῶν προνοίᾳ διοικουμένων. πάντα ἐκεῖθεν ῥεῖ· πρόσεστι δὲ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον καὶ τὸ τῷ ὅλῳ κόσμῳ συμφέρον, οὗ μέρος εἶ. παντὶ δὲ φύσεως μέρει ἀγαθόν, ὃ φέρει ἡ τοῦ ὅλου φύσις καὶ ὃ ἐκείνης ἐστὶ σωστικόν. σῴζουσι δὲ……