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[230] πρόφρων, ‘in earnest,’ ‘with full purpose of heart.’ Not co-ordinated with “ἀγανὸς καὶ ἤπιος”, but taken adverbially with “ἔστω”. It is nearly always used in Homer as an adverbial adjunct to a verb, except in the phrases “πρόφρων κραδίη” Il.10. 244, and “πρόφρονι θυμῷ” Il.22. 184.In Hesiod, Opp. et D. 612, it is found expressing a malicious purpose, “εἰ μὴ δὴ πρόφρων ἐθέλῃσιν ὀλέσσαι”. It is better in this sentence not to join closely “τις σκηπτοῦχος βασιλεύς”, but rather to render, ‘Let no one be kind, etc., as a sceptred monarch.’

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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