προφᾰσ-ίζομαι,
imperfect προὐφασιζόμην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.90 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Attic dialect future προφασιοῦμαι [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.24, later -ίσομαι Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1019 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist προὐφασισάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.54, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.30, etc.; προεφ- 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 59.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—allege by way of excuse, plead in excuse, with accusative, τὸν αὐλητήν [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 941; τὸν μῆνα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.54; ἀεί τι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.20 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: with infinitive, allege as an excuse that.. , ἀρρωστεῖν [[ [prev. author] 19.124; so π. ὅτι οὐκ ἐπίστανται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.14: with _accusative_ _cognate_, πάσας προφάσεις π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 474e, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 8.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, make excuses, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 756, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.90; οὐκ ἔφη χρῆναι π. οὐδὲ διαμέλλειν [prev. author] 6.25; π. ὑπέρ τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.13: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist in passive sense, ὡς εὗρον ἅπαν.. προφασισθέν that all was used as a pretext, all was a mere pretence, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.33, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 57.72. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II allege (by way of accusation) that.. , Εάρδεσιν ἐπιβουλεῦσαι [ἡμᾶς] π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III seek a quarrel against, τινι [[ LXX.4Ki.5.7. ] LXX]