πρόσ-θεσις, εως
(Doric dialect ποτίθεσις [[ “SIG” 569.25 (Halasarna, 3rd c.BC))] Refs 3rd c.BC+], ἡ, (προστίθημι) application, ναρθήκων [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of pessaries, [[ [prev. author] “Mul.” 1.11 (_plural_), “Nat.Mul.” 11 ] Refs]; of ladders, π. [κλίμακος] [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.135, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.60.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the cupping-instrument, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1405b3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κόμης προσθέσεις the use of false hair, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 22: _metaphorically_, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 26. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 attachment, ζῳδίων [[ “IG” 12.374.287 ] Refs]; of leaf to stem, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.6.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II administration of food, nourishment, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 1.19 (_plural_), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ φυσικῶν δυνάμεων - Scripta Minora” 1.11, 17(2).364. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III addition, διὰ τὴν π. τοῦ ἑτέρου τῷ ἑτέρῳ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 97a, compare 101b, 101c; αὔξησις κατὰ πρόσθεσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 333b1, compare “Ph.” 245a27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀφαίρεσις,[[ [prev. work] 190b6, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so in arithmetical sense, ἀριθμεῖσθαι κατὰ π. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1081b14, compare 1092b31. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]