προΐστημι,
future -στήσω: aorist 1 προὔστησα, participle προστήσας, infinitive προστῆσαι. Causal in these tenses, as also in present and aorist 1 middle, set before, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, προστήσας [σε] πρὸ Ἀχαιῶν Τρωσὶ μάχεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.156: with _genitive_, π. τὸ σῶμα τοῦ σκοποῦ] Refs 8th c.BC+] put his body in the way, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.2.4 (uncertain reading), compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 set over, ὃν ἡ πόλις ἀξιοῖ αὑτῆς προϊστάναι, variant for{-εστάναι}, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 197d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 exhibit publicly, prostitute, π. ἐπ᾽ οἰκημάτων [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 7.133. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II middle, mostly aorist 1, put another before oneself, choose as one's leader, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123, 4.80: with _genitive_, προΐστασθαι τουτονὶ ἑαυτοῦ ] Refs 5th c.BC+]take as one's guardian, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 565c, compare 442a (conjecture), 599a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.37; σφῶν αὐτῶν προὐστήσαντο τιμωρὸν γενέσθαι Κηφίσιον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.139; στρατηγόν τινα τοῦ πολέμου π. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 21. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 put before one, put in front, σκίπωνα προστήσασθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.172; τὰ ἅρματα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν χεῖρα, so as to shade the eyes, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 960a21. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]