In Greek mythology, Prophasis () was the personification of excuse.Race, n. 2 to line 29, p. 311. According to Pindar, she was the daughter of Epimetheus.Pindar, Pythian 5.28–9 (pp. 310, 311).

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References Pindar, Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 56, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. . Online version at Harvard University Press.