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proteron

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Erasistratos de kantautha proteron poisas to deuteron ouk oid' hops ouk aisthanetai.

Hysteron proteron—The last first, or the cart before the horse.

His only rule is that of hysteron proteron, or putting the cart before the horse.

Hysteron-proteron, his′ter-on-prot′er-on, n. a figure of speech in which what should follow comes first: an inversion.

We may observe that 'owe' and 'succeed' are legal terms, which here form a hysteron-proteron, like some other common phrases.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to proteron, such as: adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, and analogy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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