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προσφέρω
(once ποσφέρω, which see), Doric dialect ποτιφέρω Prov. cited in [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.239a] Refs 1st c.AD+]: future
__A προσοίσω [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 257 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect aorist προσένεικα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect aorist passive προσηνείχθην [[ [prev. author] 9.71 ] Refs]:—bring to or upon, apply to, π. πύργοισι κλιμάκων προσαμβάσεις [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 488; πῦρ σοι [prev. author] “Andr.” 257 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηχανὰς [τοῖσι τείχεσι] [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.18, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.58 (and so _metaphorically_, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.125 (unless in signification 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.2)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. νόμον, ψήφισμα πρὸς τὴν συγγραφήν bring to bear against.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.39); τὴν χεῖρα πρὸς τοὺς μυκτῆρας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but χέρα τινὶ προσενεγκεῖν lay hands upon.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῖς, in hostile sense, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.79.4, compare “PCair.Zen.” 18.8 (3rd c.BC), “PPetr.” 2p.10 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+] (but also in a friendly relation, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] {προσφεύγω}, and in supplication to the gods, hold out one's hands to, [[ “UPZ” 106.12, 107.14 (2nd c.BC))] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἀνάγκην or ἀναγκαίην τισὶ π. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.136, 172, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 76 (Lyric poetry); βίην τισί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.19; τινὶ βάσανον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 23a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so of surgical or medical treatment, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑλκῶν” 24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πταρμὸν [τῇ λυγγί] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 189a ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (passive)[[. compare 187e; τὰς τομὰς καὶ τὰς καύσεις τινί 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 55.17 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; κλύδωνα σαυτῷ αὐθαίρετον bring upon thyself, [[ “Tragica Adespota” 568] Refs]: without dative, apply, employ, use, καινὰ σοφά [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 298, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 1130 (compare below 3); ἴαμα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.51; τεχνήματα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 322; πάσας μηχανάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 112; πάντας ἐλέγχους 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 484 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τόλμαν bring it to bear, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.30; also π. πόλεμον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.γ (variant)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔρωτα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 187e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Browse lexicon entries__A.2 add, μηδὲ π. μέθυ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 481 (or in signification 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.3a); εἰ κακὸν προσοίσομεν νέον παλαιῷ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 78 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (or perhaps, bear in addition); π. τι πρός τι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.125 (or in signification 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.1). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.3 present, offer, ἄεθλον, of a triumphal ode, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.108; λουτρὰ πατρί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 434 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τόξα] [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 775; τὴν δᾷδά τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1052; τὴν χεῖρά τινι ἄκραν [prev. author] “Lys.” 436; δῶρα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐθὲν κολοβὸν προσφέρομεν πρὸς τοὺς θεούς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 101 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἶνον μὴ π. [[ “Schwyzer” 696 (from Chios)] Refs]; σφάγια καὶ θυσίας [[ LXX.Amos.5.25, +others, cf. NT.Heb.11.4; τὸ δῶρόν σου NT.Matt.5.24, etc. ] LXX+NT]
__A.3.b especially of food, drink, or medicine, θαλλὸν χιμαίραις [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 502; π. τὰ ῥυφήματα καὶ τὰ πόματα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 26, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 270b, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 55, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 189, etc.; π. τὸ φάρμακον τῇ κεφαλῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 157c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἑαυτῷ π φάρμακον administer poison to oneself, [[ “POxy.” 472.6 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; set food before one, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.13 and 14, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 792a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, π. τινὶ ἐμπιεῖν καὶ φαγεῖν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.1; also διψῶντι γάρ τοι πάντα προσφέρων σοφὰ οὐκ ἂν πλέον τέρψειας ἢ᾽ μπιεῖν διδούς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 763; χυμὸς ἐπιτήδειος προσφέρειν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 24; ὁ προσφέρων [prev. author] “Epid.” 1.23:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, τὰ προσφερόμενα[[ [prev. passage], 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.2; ἡ προσφερομένη τροφή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 230c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.4 address proposals, an offer, etc., π. λόγον τινί [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, 5.30, compare 40; περὶ σπονδῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.109; ὅτι.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.6; λόγους π. τισί 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.4; λόγους π. περὶ ξυμβάσεως τοῖς στρατηγοῖς [prev. author] 2.70, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.52; λόγους τισὶ ξυναποστῆναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.57. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.5 convey property by deed of gift or by bequest, [[ Arch.Papyrus 4.130 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ “PAmh.” 2.71.6 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.II contribute, pay, ἑκατὸν τάλαντα π. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.91, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. μετοίκιον pay an alientax, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 2.1, compare “OGI” 13.20 (Samos, 4th c.BC, _middle_), “PGiss.” 50.12 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; bring in, yield, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.15, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III intransitive, resemble, with accusative of respect in which, π. νόον ἀθανάτοις [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.4; θηρὸς χρωτὶ νόον προσφέρων [prev. author] “fragment” 43; π. τρόπους παιδί “Tragica Adespota” 453; compare below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.IV bear in addition, see above [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B passive, with future προσοίσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.44, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.22: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist προσηνεγκάμην, ={προσηνέχθην}, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.8 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—to be borne towards, and of ships, put in, εἰς λιμένα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.6: hence, ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 attack. assault, πρός τινας [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.34, 111, 112, 7.209, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.3.20, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.109, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸ ἰσχυρότατον προσηνείχθησαν attacked where the enemy was strongest, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.71, compare 5.101, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.44, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 422b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προσφέρεσθαι ἄποροι difficult to engage, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.49, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 223b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.3 without any sense of hostility, go to or towards, approach, ἐκ τοῦ Ἰκαρίου πελάγεος προσφερόμενοι sailing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.96; π. τοῖσι Κορινθίοισι [prev. author] 8.94 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷ σκοπέλῳ, τῇ Τρῳάδι, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 15, “DMort.” 19.2; πόλεμος ἀπὸ Πελοποννήσου -φερόμενος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 8 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; τὰ -όμενα πρήγματα matters that were brought to him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.173. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.4 deal with, behave oneself in a certain way towards a person, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου ὑμῖν π. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140; τοῖς κρείσσοσι καλῶς [prev. author] 5.111, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.16; τισὶν οὐ μετρίως 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.24, compare “PTeb.” 750.2 (2nd c.BC), “Sammelb.” 5675.6 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φιλανθρώπως [τῇ Ποτειδαία] [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.8, compare “SIG” 807.13 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀρθότατα ἵπποις π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.1; also τίνα τρόπον προσφέρῃ πρὸς τὰ παιδικά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 205b, compare “Phdr.” 252d; ἄριστα π. πρὸς τοὺς ἀμφισβητοῦντας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of circumstances, ταῖς ξυμφοραῖς εὐξυνετώτερον meet them with intelligence, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὰ πράγματα ἄριστα π. [[ [prev. author] 6.44; πρὸς τὰς τύχας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 604d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς λόγον answer it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.44: _absolutely_, χρησμῳδέων π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀλιγώρως π. [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.5 προσφέρεσθαί τινι come near, be like, ὁ χαρακτὴρ τοῦ προσώπου προσφέρεσθαι ἐδόκεε ἐς ἑωυτόν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116; compare above 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 111, and see at {προσφερής}. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II to be added, [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Prolegomena ad Hephaestionis Euchiridion” p.89C. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__C middle, with future -οίσομαι[[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 8 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: 3rd.pers. singular aorist 1 subjunctive -ενέγκηται[[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.64U.:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —προσφέρεσθαί τι take, of food or drink, assimilate, π. σῖτον, ποτόν. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.41, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.145, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.4.5, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus [same place], 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 30, “Cic.” 3, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C.2 exhibit, ὑμῖν φιλοτιμίαν Epist.[[ 1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.167, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.14U., “Inscription Prien.” 42.14, 108.221 (2nd c.BC), etc.; also π. ἑαυτόν [prev. work]111.294 (1st c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__C.3 like the active, apply, κἂν ὁτιοῦν δουλείας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 563d; πᾶσαν σπουδὴν καὶ μηχανήν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.18.11, compare “Supp.epigram” 2.663.5 (Prusa, 2nd c.BC), “PTeb.” 27.14, +others (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C.4 contribute, πλεῖστα πρός τι [[ 3rd c.BC: Athenio Comicus 1.2 (assuming variant)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; bring with one as dowry, εἱματισμὸν καὶ κόσμον [[ “PEleph.” 1.4 (4th c.BC),compare “PGiss.” 2.12 (2nd c.BC), etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; comparesupr.[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__C.5 declare, μὴ εἰδέναι γράμματα [[ “PHamb.” 39.63 (2nd c.AD),compare “POxy.” 237 vii 26 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__C.6 ={προσορίζω}, add land by deed of conveyance, κυρία ἔσται -ομένη πρὸς πόλιν ἣν ἂν βούληται [[ “OGI” 225.10 (Didyma, 3rd c.BC), compare 221.44 (Ilium, 3rd c.BC), +others ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__C.7 convey property, π. ἐν προσφορᾷ [μέρος οἰκίας] [[ “PRyl.” 155.7 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]