προσδοκ-άω,
Ionic dialect προσδοκ-έω (which is sometimes found as falsa lectio, e.g. in [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.7.3): ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]future -ήσω: aorist -εδόκησα: perfect προσδεδόκηκα [[ 1st c.AD: Memnon Historicus 45.3 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—expect, whether in hope or fear; mostly with infinitive future, expect that one will do or that a thing will be, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 930, 988, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.42, 7.156, 235, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 699b, etc.: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive aorist and ἄν, that one would do or that a thing would be, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 556, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 438e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 1.3, etc.: without ἄν, Μενέλεων.. προσδόκα μολεῖν (={τὸ μολεῖν αὐτόν})] Refs 5th c.BC+] expect his arrival, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 675. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 with infinitive present, think, suppose that one is doing or that a thing is, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1091, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 803e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive perfect, think that a thing has been.. , [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 275a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 with accusative of things, expect, look for a thing, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1026, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 784, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 56, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 8.14, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινά expect, wait for a person, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 363, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.20, etc.; σωτῆρας σφῶν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 170b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]