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προσαιρέομαι , Med.,
A.choose and associate with, “τινάς τινι ξυμβούλους” Th.5.63; ἑωυτῷ π. τινά take for one's companion or ally, Hdt.9.10; κοινὸν αὑτοῖς [διαιτητήν] D.59.45; “σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἄρχοντας” Arist.Ath. 35.1; “ὁ αἰσυμνήτης τοὺς προσεταίρους -εῖται” SIG57.7 (Milet., v B. C.), cf. IG12.56.27, 84.38.
II. choose in addition to, “τινά τινι” X.HG6.2.39; στρατηγοὺς πρὸς τοῖς ὑπάρχουσι ib.2.1.16.
III. Act. προσαιρεῖν appoint as one's assistant, POxy.58.17 (iii A.D.): aor. part. προσελών dub. sens. in PPetr.2.20 iii 9 (cf. 3p.76, iii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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