προσφων-έω,
call or speak to, address, present first in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 236: used by 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] only in imperfect, the Epic dialect aorist being προσέειπον, τινα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.22, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.69: _absolutely_, 5.159, 10.109, +others: later with _dative_ _person_, LXX.1Esd.2.21, Antig.Rex cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.7, NT.Matt.11.16, NT.Act.22.2 ] NT+8th c.BC+]: with double accusative, address words to a person, οὐδέ τί μιν προσεφώνεον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.332, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 159, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 664. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 call by name, ποδαπὸν ὅμιλον τόνδε.. προσφωνοῦμε; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supp.” [same place]; ὀνόματι π. τινά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 942 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινὰ βασιλέα salute him king, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.38.3, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__3 issue directions or orders, τινι [[ “PTeb.” 27.109 (2nd c.BC): _absolutely_, followed by ὅπως, [prev. work] 124.21 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—passive, [[ “UPZ” 106.20 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II with accusative of things, pronounce, utter, τήνδε π. φάτιν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1213; τὰ ὑπογεγραμμένα “IG” 7.2713.7 (Acraeph., 1st c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; address or dedicate a book, τινι [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 16.11.4, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 1, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.313f, etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]