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Doric dialect ποτι-, also aorist infinitive ποιθέμεν [[ “IG” 42(1).121.17 (Epid.)] Refs]; ποτθέμειν probably in [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 170.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: late present προστιθῶ Ps.- [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philopatr.” 18,27; _imperative_ προστίθει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 83: ] Refs 4th c.BC+]future προσθήσω: aorist προσέθηκα, plural -έθεμεν, subjunctive προσθῶ [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect προσθέω [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— middle, future προσθήσομαι [[ LXX.Exo.14.13 ] LXX]: aorist 1 προσεθηκάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.65: more frequently ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist 2 προσεθέμην, subjunctive προσθῶμαι (not πρόσθωμαι), 3rd.pers. singular optative προσθεῖτο [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.12, but πρόσθοιτο [prev. author] 11.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Doric dialect participle ποτθέμενος, Πρακτικά 1931.89 [[ (from Dodona)] Refs]: perfect -τέθειμαι[[ LXX.Deu.23.15 ] LXX]:—passive, aorist 1 προσετέθην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future -τεθήσομαι[[ LXX.Num.27.13, +others (-τεθήσεσθαι] LXX] is falsa lectio [[LXX.Exo.5.7): but the ] LXX]perfect passive is chiefly supplied by πρόσκειμαι:—put to, χερσὶν ἀπώσασθαι λίθον ὃν προσέθηκεν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.305 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. τὰς θύρας, τὴν θύραν, put to, close the door, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.13; τὰς πύλας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.67 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κλίμακας [τοῖς πύργοις] [[ [prev. author] 3.23 ] Refs]; κόμῃ προσθεῖσα βόστρυχον holding it close to.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 229; χέρα ἐλάτῃ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1110; γόνασιν ὠλένας [prev. author] “Andr.” 895, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 942; τοῖς καλλίστοις τοῦ ζῴου τὰ κάλλιστα φάρμακα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. μύωπας apply the spur, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.18.4; π. χεῖρ᾽ ἐπὶ πρόσωπα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1699 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; apply a pessary, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 32, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.62, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [κύαθον] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 890b24 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, of pessaries, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.76, +others, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.35, +others ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 hand over, deliver to, θεῶν γέρα.. ἐφημέροισι προστίθει [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 83, compare “hymnus ad Mercurium” 129 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τινὶ γυναῖκα π. give her to him as wife, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.126 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but π. γυναικὶ τάλαντον, as a dower, [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Lycophrone” 13; π. τινὰ ἄλλῳ πατρί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1545; Ἅιδῃ ἐμὸν δέμας [prev. author] “Hec.” 368, compare “IA” 540; π. τινὰ πυρί [prev. author] “Supp.” 948; σφαγέντα παῖδα π. πόλει [prev. author] “Ph.” 964; τισὶ π. πόλιν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86; τὴν διοίκησιν τῶν κοινῶν ἑαυτῷ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 52.14; also νᾶσον εὐκλέϊ π. λόγῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.68. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 give besides or also, φερνάς [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 628; προῖκα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.195; χρήματα [prev. author] 18.239, etc.; πίστιν ὑμῖν [prev. author] 54.42; τὰ ἴδια τοῖς ἀλλοτρίοις 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 557 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, spend money, οὐ μόνον ἄνευ μισθοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ προστιθεὶς ἂν ἡδέως [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1130a25, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “Protrepticus” 9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II impose upon, πρῆγμα τὸ ἄν τοι προσθέω [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108, compare 3.62 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, π. τινὶ πρήσσειν [[ [prev. author] 5.30 ] Refs]; π. μέτρον impose measure or bounds, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 796 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. τινὶ ἀτιμίην impose, inflict disgrace upon him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. [φθόρον] [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 482; ἐπ᾽ ἐμαυτῷ ἀράς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 820; ὄκνον [prev. author] “Ant.” 243; αύτὸς αὑτῷ τὴν βλάβην [prev. author] “fragment” 350 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύπην, πόνους, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 946, “Heracl.” 505; ἀναλώματα “IG” 14.830.12 (Puteoli, 2nd c.AD, _passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινὶ ἔκπληξιν ἀφασίαν τε strike him dumb with fear, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 549; ἐνθύμιον τοῖς ζῶσι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.1.2; τισὶ ζημίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. φιλανθρωπίαν εἰς τὰ τῆς πόλεως πράγματα employ it on.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.140. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 attribute or impute to, τῷ θεῷ τὴν αἰτίαν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1525, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. θράσος μοι impute boldness to me, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 475; θεοῖσι π. ἀμαθίαν [prev. author] “Hipp.” 951; ἀπληστίαν λέχους γυναιξί [prev. author] “Andr.” 219; τὸ ἐμπλήκτως ὀξὺ ἀνδρὸς μοίρᾳ προσετέθη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III add, τάδε τούτοισι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.20, +others; πρὸς [τῇ γνώμῃ] ἔργα [prev. author] 4.139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄλλον πρὸς ὦν ἔθηκαν χρυσόν[[ [prev. work] 196; χάριτι χάριν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 327; νοσοῦντι νόσον [prev. author] Alcaeus1048; π. τῷ νόμῳ τὸν λόγον τόνδε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.35, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136 (_passive_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 468b; προσθεῖναι τῷ δικαίῳ ἢ ὡς ἐλέγομεν (for πλέον ἤ..) [prev. work] 335a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄγγελλε δ᾽ ὅρκον π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 47 (Reiske for ὅρκῳ codices,compare ὅρκου προστεθέντος “fragment” 472; ὀμόσας.. προσθείς τε χεῖρα δεξιάν “Ph.” 942); τὴν στήλην ὕστερον προσέθηκε “IG” 12.374.174; τοῖς εὖ ἔχουσιν ἔργοις οὔτ᾽ ἀφελεῖν ἔστιν οὔτε προσθεῖναι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1106b11; ἐάν τι ἀφέλωμεν ἢ προσθῶμεν ἢ μεταθῶμεν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 432a; π. γράμματα [prev. work] 418a, compare 431c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also π. ἐπὶ τοῖσδε χάριν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1253; ἵππον πρὸς τοὔνομα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 63; πρὸς τὸν μισθὸν ἑκάστῳ ὀβολόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.5.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 33c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, make additions, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.45; πρὸς τὰ ὑπάρχοντα -τιθέντες πλουσιώτεροι γίνονται 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1359b28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; make additions to a story, improve it, [[ [prev. author] “Po.” 1460a18 ] Refs]; also of actors,[[[prev. work] 1461b30 ] Refs]: especially of adding articles to statements or documents, προσθεῖναι οὐδὲν εἶχον τοῖς εἰρημένοις οὐδ᾽ ἀφελεῖν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.264, compare “POxy.” 1062.4 (2nd c.AD), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. καὶ ἀφελεῖν τι περὶ τῆς ξυμμαχίας Foed. cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.23, compare 29; π. τὶ πρὸς τοῖς ξυγκειμένοις Foed.[prev. work] 47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὰς συνθήκας Foed. cited in [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.43.27; π. ὅτι.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.231 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of entries in accounts, προσετέθη τὰ τέλη τῷ κυριακῷ λόγῳ [[ “PAmh.” 77.15 (2nd c.AD),compare “BGU” 620.15 (4th c.AD), etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; π. τινὶ [ἀργύριον] pay, [[ 3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri Michegan 28.24 (3rd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 647.56 (3rd c.BC), “PRyl.” 153.27 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρόσθες εἰς ὄνομα Ἐπωνύχου credit to account of [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus, “Ostr.” 1159 (2nd-3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; pay in, deposit gold in a bank or mint, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 23.32 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III.2 with accusative person, τίνα τῇδε προστιθῶ στάσε; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 114 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Ἀθηναίοις π. σφᾶς αὐτούς join their party, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἑαυτόν τινι ἐς πίστιν, ἐπὶ ἰδίοις κέρδεσι, [[ [prev. author] 8.46, 50. ] Refs]
__III.3 in Mathematics texts, add, πὸτ ἀριθμόν.. φᾶφον [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 170.8 (probably); [χωρίον] ἕτερον αὐτῷ τουτὶ ἴσον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 84d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς πεπερασμένον ἀεὶ π. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 266b2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, εἴ κα.. ποτὶ τὸ ἕτερον τῶν βαρέων ποτιτεθῇ,.. ῥέπειν ἐπὶ τὸ βάρος ἐκεῖνο ᾧ ποτετέθη [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1 “Def.” 2, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1 “Ax.” 2, etc.; κοινοῦ -τεθέντος 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 742.15. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III.4 in Logic, add some determining word, opposed to ἀφαιρεῖν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 91b27, compare “EN” 1147b33. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.5 in LXX and NT, continue or repeat an action, with infinitive, προσέθηκεν ἔτι λαλῆσαι [[ LXX.Gen.18.29; οὐ προσθήσω ἔτι πατάξαι [prev. work] 8.21 ] LXX]; οὐ μὴ προσθῶ πεῖν I will not drink again, [[NT.Mark.14.25 (variant)] NT]; also προσθεὶς Ἰὼβ εἶπεν Job continued and said, [[ LXX.Job.27.1; προσθεὶς εἶπε παραβολήν NT.Luke.19.11 ] LXX+NT]; προσθεῖσα ἔτεκεν υἱόν she bore another son, [[ LXX.Gen.38.5 ] LXX]:—also in middle, see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 111. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B middle, side with one, οἷς ἂν σὺ προσθῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1332, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11, 8.48, 87, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.12, 11.6, 52.25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ ἀστῷ π. to be favourable, wellinclined to him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.160, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῇ ἡδονῇ side with pleasure, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Magna Moralia” 1201a2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: absolutely, come in, submit, Epist.[[ 1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.39. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.2 assent, agree, οὔ οἱ ἔγωγε π. τῇ γνώμῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.109, compare 3.83, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.50, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.10; τῷ λόγῳ τῷ λεχθέντι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.120; τῷ Καρχηδονίων νόμῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 674a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: later with infinitive, consent, bring onself to, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.1.8. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B.3 φῆφον δ᾽ Ὀρέστῃ τήνδ᾽ ἐγὼ προσθήσομαι will deposit this vote in favour of Orestes, i.e. will vote in his favour, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 735; ἡμῖν ἂν προσθέμενοι τὴν φῆφον εὐορκοίητε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.69 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; so μὴ μιᾷ φήφῳ π. (i.e. τὴν γνώμην), ἀλλὰ δυοῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φῆφον π. ἐναντίαν τινί[[ [prev. work] 40; φῆφον π. ὥστε ἀποκτεῖναι “OGI” 218.102 (Ilium, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__B.4 in Mathematics texts, add, [[ Sammelb. 6951 ii 30, +others (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.II with accusative person, associate with oneself, i.e. take to one as a friend, ally, or helper, win over, π. τὸν δῆμον πρὸς τὴν ἑωυτοῦ μοῖραν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.69, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.18; εἰ στρατὸν προσθέοιτο φίλον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.53, compare 69, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 404 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταύτην προσθοῦ δάμαρτα take her to wife, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 1224 ] Refs]: also in bad sense, πολέμιον π. τινά [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 with accusative of things, apply to oneself, βάλανον [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.26.a', compare 4.30 (_absolutely_, [prev. work] 1.26.δ᾽); ὀξύβαφον προσθοῦ λαβών 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 361; πατρὸς στέρνα προσθέσθαι θέλω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1408 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, put on, τῇ ὄφει ἀχθηδόνας [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; add to oneself, gain, τί ἂν προσθείμην πλέο; what should I be profited? [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. χάριν, ={ἐπιχαρίζεσθαι}, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 767 ] Refs]; especially of evils, bring or take upon onself, πρὸς κακοῖσι κακόν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 531; μέριμναν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1460; κακά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 146; ἄχθος ἐπ᾽ ἄχθει π. διπλοῦν [prev. author] “Andr.” 396 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἰκεῖον πόνον, κινδύνους αὐθαιρέτους, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.78, 144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχθρας ἑκουσίους πρὸς ταῖς ἀναγκαίαις π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 346b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2.b bring upon others, οἱ.. πόλεμον προσεθήκαντο made war upon him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἄν σφι Σπαρτιήτας μῆνιν οὐδεμίαν προσθέσθαι vented any wrath upon.., [[ [prev. author] 7.229. ] Refs]
__B.III in LXX and NT, continue or repeat an action (compare above [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 111.5), οὐ προσθήσεσθε ἔτι ἰδεῖν αὐτούς LXX.Exo.14.13 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; προσέθετο πέμφαι ἕτερον [[ NT.Luke.20.11] NT]; προσέθετο συλλαβεῖν καὶ Πέτρον he caused Peter also to be arrested, [[ NT.Act.12.3; also Φαραὼ προσέθετο τοῦ ἁμαρτάνειν LXX.Exo.9.34 ] LXX+NT]; οὐ προσέθετο τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι[[LXX.Gen.8.12. ] LXX]
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