προσην-ής,
Doric dialect προσᾱνής ές, soft, gentle, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 130, etc.; ξενία 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.64; γλίσχρασμα λεῖον.. καὶ π. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προσανέα πίνειν drink soothing draughts, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.52, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 21; αἱ κατὰ σάρκα.. -εῖς κινήσεις 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 411; τὰ -έστατα βρωτὰ καὶ ποτά 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τόπος ἐνδιατρῖψαι.. -έστατος most pleasant, [[ [prev. author] 3.69; τὰ ἀπήνεμα καὶ π. 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 6.33; π. ὁμιλίαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.46e; λεία καὶ π. κίνησις 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.322 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; π. τι λέγειν speak smooth things, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.77; φίλα καὶ π. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.466d; τὸ μειλιχῶδες καὶ π. 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 18 ii 10; τὸ π. τοῦ φθέγματος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with dative, λύχνῳ π., i.e. suitable, fit for burning, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.94. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of persons, gentle, kind, οὐδ᾽ ἀστοῖσι π. [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 15; π. ἐγένετο τῇ συγκλήτῳ “IG” 5(2).268.29 (Mantinea, 1st c.BC)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τοῖς φίλοις οὐ π. οὐδὲ ἡδύς [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 5; εὔνους καὶ π. [prev. author] 2.708c; -έστερα.. τὰς ψυχὰς τὰ θήλεα τῶν ἀρρένων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 809a31; τῷ ἤθει -έστατος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Phocion” 5; π. τὸ βλέμμα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 13; also π. ὄψις 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 584 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ π. αὐτοῦ the enticement of it, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 34 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: irregular superlative προσηνότατος [[ “IPE” 2.197.8 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]