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προσπίπτω,
Doric dialect ποτιπίπτω [[ 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: future -πεσοῦμαι[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 350: for ποτιπεπτηυῖαι] Refs 5th c.BC+], see at {προσπτήσσω}:—fall upon, strike against, ἔς τι variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 855 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 7.6, etc.; πρός τι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 800a2, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; fall against, as a mound against a wall, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but πρὸς τὸ οὖς προσπίπτων is uncertain reading in [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2.10 (προσκύπτων conjecture Valckenaer). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 fall upon, attack, assault, πόλεσιν, ὁπλίταις, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.3, etc.: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.30, 103, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.38. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 simply, run to, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 fall upon, embrace, τινι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus [same place], “IA” 1191: hence, π. τινί] Refs 5th c.BC+] join the party of another, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, fasten on, in argument, τῇ διαφορᾷ [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 36. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__5 fall in with, meet with, encounter, μὴ λάθῃ με προσπεσών [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 46, compare 156 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 270a: with _dative_ _of things_, [prev. author] “Tht.” 154b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; fall in with, δυστυχεστάτῳ κλήρῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 291 (Lyric poetry); αἰσχρᾷ ἐπιθυμίᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 30; μεγίσταις ἡδοναῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 637a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δήγματι to be bitten, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 6.51: with _accusative_, μείζω βροτείας π. ὁμιλίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with a preposition, πρὸς τὰς τῶν φυλάκων ψυχάς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 906b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς βράχεα, πρὸς τὰ κοινά, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.39.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.788c. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.1 of events, accidents, etc., come suddenly upon, befall one, τινι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 225, “IT” 1229 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 396d; τὰ προσπίπτονθ᾽ ἡμῖν δείματα [prev. author] “Lg.” 791c, etc.: _absolutely_, ἄτην προσπεσοῦσαν ἐνεῖκαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ συμφοραὶ προσπίπτουσαι misfortunes by befalling, [[ [prev. author] 7.46, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 5.4; αἱ π. χρεῖαι “PCair.Zen.” 31.7 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ π. τύχαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84; τὰ προσπεσόντα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 505; γενναίως φέρειν τὰ προσπίπτοντα 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.44 at Title Page; οἱ τὰ π. κρίναντες χρηματισταί “PPetr.” 3p.53 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ π. ἐπιθυμία [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 561c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὰ προσπίπτοντα according to circumstances, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1286a11; οἱ προσπίπτοντες κίνδυνοι 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 117 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ π. εἰς τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον [[ [prev. author] “Epit.” 43; ὅ τι ἂν προσπέσῃ ἰχθύδιον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 590a27, compare “PCair.Zen.” 186.15 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; προσπεσούσης μοι τῆς.. ἐπιστολῆς when the letter came to hand, [[ PStrassb. 111.2 (3rd c.BC),compare “PPetr.” 3p.71 (3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 240.9 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.2 of expenses, to be incurred, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.28, “PCair.Zen.” 60.3 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 of money, to be paid in to an account, [[[prev. work] 701.9 (3rd c.BC), “PPetr.” 3p.290 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.4 of rights and duties, etc., pass to, devolve or fall upon, ὅταν λειτουργία προσπέσῃ ἀπολύειν αὐτούς [[ “PHib.” 1.78.4 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὥστε μηδεμίαν ὑποψίαν ἐκείνῳ γε προσπεσεῖν [[ “PSI” 4.340.12 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; κληρονομίας -πεσούσης μοι [[ “BGU” 340.9 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II.5 come to one's ears, be told as news, εἴ τισιν ἀπιστότερος προσπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.59, compare “PSI” 6.614.13 (3rd c.BC), “UPZ” 9.9 (2nd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.101.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 16, etc.; εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.6.1: _impersonal_, προσέπεσε] Refs 4th c.BC+] news came that.., with accusative et infinitive, [[ [prev. author] 24.14.10, compare 31.14.8 ] Refs]; προσπέπτωκεν Παῶν ἀναπλεῖν Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 10 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; προσπεσόντων τῷ βασιλεῖ περὶ τῶν γεγονότων [[ LXX.2Mac.5.11. ] LXX]
__II.5.b π. δι᾽ ἑαυτοῦ or αὐτόθεν to be self-evident, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.168, “M.” 1.300; τὰ ποτιπίπτοντα ποτὶ τὰν αἴσθησιν 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 5, 41. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.6 sit or fit closely, of a bandage, προσπεπτωκός, opposed to χαλαρόν, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.7 Geometry texts, meet, πόλος πρὸς ὃν αἱ γραμμαὶ προσπίπτουσιν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 376a19, compare 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἑλίκων” 6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of lines, to be drawn to meet, πρὸς κύκλον [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 3.37 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; π. ἐπὶ.. pass through a point, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἑλίκων” 14. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.8 of the pulse, ={ὑποπίπτω}, [[ 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “Puls.” 6.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the womb, ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα π. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 44, compare “Mul.” 2.125, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III fall down at another's feet, prostrate oneself, προσπίπτων προσκυνέει τὸν ἕτερον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.134; προσπεσὼν ἔχου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1181; ἱκέτης προσπίπτω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.2: with _dative_, π. βωμοῖσι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 904, compare “OC” 1157; τινὸς γόνασι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1332, “Andr.” 860 (Lyric poetry), etc.; προσπεσὼν αὐτῷ.. ἱκέτευε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 349a; θεῶν πρὸς βρέτας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 31; πρὸς γόνυ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 79: also with _accusative_, π. βρέτη δαιμόνων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 94 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare προσπίτνω.
