προικός, ἡ (on the accent v. Arc. 125, An.Ox. 3.243; Ion. accus. πρόϊκα acc. to EM 495.33), gift, present, in Hom. only gen. προικός, as Adv., ἀργαλέον ἕνα προικὸς χαρίσασθαι burdensome is it for a single person to give of his bounty, without reimbursement, Od. 13.15; ἔμελλεν… προικὸς γεύσεσθαι Ἀχαιῶν was like ly to make trial of the Achaeans with impunity, 17.413 (unless π. γ. = taste the gift). after Hom., marriage-porlion, dowry, Hippon. (?) 72, And. 4.14, Lys. 19.9, Pl. Lg. 774c, al. ; ἐν τῇ προικὶ τετιμημένα reckoned as part of the dowry, D. 47.57; ἀποτετιμημένα προικὸς τῇ διοδώρου θυγατρί IG2². 2675. acc. προῖκα as Adv., as a free gift, freely, at one΄s own cost, Ar. Eq. 577, 679, Nu. 1426; π. ἐργάζεσθαι Pl. R. 346e; ἀρετὴ τὸ π. τοῖς φίλοις ὑπηρετεῖν Antiph. 210; π. κρίνειν, πρεσβεύειν, without a gift, unbribed, D. 5.12, 19.232, cf. IG 3.702, etc. ; παῖς… κακὸν μὲν δρᾶν τι προῖκ’ ἐπίσταται of oneself, without a teacher, [S.] Fr. 1120. π. τῆς δόξης to say nothing of, in addition to, Plu. 2.349e.

att. = προΐξ.