A.“-ηρχόμην” Th.4.121 (unless fr. προσάρχομαι): fut. “-ελεύσομαι” Plb.21.14.6 (but the Att. impf. and fut. are commonly προσῄειν, πρόσειμι, q.v.): aor. -ήλυθον, -ῆλθον: pf. -ελήλυθα:—come or go to, c. dat., A.Eu.285, S.OC1104, etc.; π. Σωκράτει visit him as teacher, X.Mem.1.2.47; τινὶ ὥσπερ ἀθλητῇ Th.l.c. (v. προσάρχομαι); αἷς ἂν προσέλθω [γυναιξί] X.Smp.4.38: c. dat. loci, δόμοις, ἀκταῖς, A. Eu.474, E.Hel.1539: c. acc. loci, πεσσούς, δῶμα, βωμούς, Id.Med.68, 1205, Alc.171: rarely c. acc. pers., “ἐπειδὴ τοὺς πρυτάνεις προσήλθομεν” Aristomen.4: with Preps. governing acc., “π. πρὸς τὸ ἄγγος” Hdt.2.121.“β́; πρὸς Α᾿πολλώνιον” PCair.Zen.375.4 (iii B.C.): with Advbs., “π. δεῦρο” S.Aj.1171, etc.; “πέλας π. μου” E.Andr.589, cf. S.Tr.1076, etc.; ἐγγύθεν, ὄπισθεν, Pl.Plt.289d, R.327b; ὅπῃ π. χρή ib.493b: abs., approach, draw nigh, Hdt.1.86, etc.; opp. ἀπέρχομαι, ib.199; of pain, pleasure, etc., to be nigh at hand, S.Ph.788, E.Or.859.
2. in hostile sense, attack, “π. πρὸς τοὺς ἱππέας” X.Cyr.6.2.16.
3. come in, surrender, capitulate, Th.3.59.
4. come forward to speak, “π. τῷ δήμῳ” D.18.13; “πρὸς τὸν δῆμον” Aeschin.3.220; “πρὸς ὑμᾶς” D.22.69, 24.176; “πρὸς τοὺς ἱερομνήμονας” SIG419.6 (Delph., iii B.C.), cf. 613.24 (ibid., ii B.C.), al.; π. πολιτείᾳ enter political life, Plu.Cat.Mi.12; π. πρὸς τὰ κοινά come forward in public, D.18.257; π. πρὸς τὸ πολιτεύεσθαι, πρὸς τὴν πολιτείαν, Din.1.111 (v.l. εἰς), 2.15; “πρὸς τὴν πόλιν” D.58.30; “π. πρὸς ἓν πρᾶγμα ἴδιον” Id.32.32; ὑμῖν (sc. Ἀθηναίοις) Id.25.42; “ἐπὶ τοὺς συμμάχους” X.HG6.3.3.
5. appear before a tribunal, “προσελθὼν εἶπεν” BGU587.2 (ii A.D.), cf. PAmh.2.66.43 (ii A.D.); “π. τῷ δικαστηρίῳ κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ” PSI1.41.18 (iv A.D.); approach an official, “π. διὰ βιβλιδίων τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ ἡγεμόνι” BGU614.12 (iii A.D.); π. τοῖς θεοῖς in supplication, D.C.56.9.
6. π. τῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ, τοῖς νόμοις, apply oneself to . . , Philostr.VA3.18, D.S.1.95; “ἐπεὶ προσῆλθον ἀγορασμῷ ἢ καὶ ὑποθήκῃ κλήρου κατοικικοῦ” BGU650.6 (i A.D.); ἐξ οὗ χρόνου προσῆλθεν ἕκαστος τῇ μισθώσει ib.1047 iv 6 (ii A.D.); π. τῇ τούτου κληρονομίᾳ enter upon his inheritance, POxy.76.22 (ii A.D.), cf. 907.5 (iii A.D.), etc.; have recourse to, “τοῖς ἀνασκευαστικωτέροις” Sor.2.50.
7. of things, to be added, Arist.GC321b27, GA723a13.
III. have sexual intercourse, Hp.Epid.6.3.14.