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προσην-ής , Dor. προσα_νής ές,
A.soft, gentle, Emp.130, etc.; “ξενία” Pi.P.10.64; “γλίσχρασμα λεῖον . . καὶ π.” Hp.Acut.10; προσανέα πίνειν drink soothing draughts, Pi. P.3.52, cf. Hp.Acut.21; “αἱ κατὰ σάρκα . . -εῖς κινήσεις” Epicur.Fr. 411; “τὰ -έστατα βρωτὰ καὶ ποτά” D.S.17.28; τόπος ἐνδιατρῖψαι . . -έστατος most pleasant, Id.3.69; “τὰ ἀπήνεμα καὶ π.” D.Chr.6.33; “π. ὁμιλίαι” Plu.2.46e; “λεία καὶ π. κίνησις” Ph.1.322; π. τι λέγειν speak smooth things, Th.6.77; “φίλα καὶ π.” Plu.2.466d; “τὸ μειλιχῶδες καὶ π.” Cerc. 18 ii 10; “τὸ π. τοῦ φθέγματος” Luc.Rh.Pr.12.
2. c. dat., λύχνῳ π., i.e. suitable, fit for burning, Hdt.2.94.
3. of persons, gentle, kind, “οὐδ᾽ ἀστοῖσι π.” Anacr.15; “π. ἐγένετο τῇ συγκλήτῳ” IG5(2).268.29 (Mantinea, i B.C.); “τοῖς φίλοις οὐ π. οὐδὲ ἡδύς” Plu. Nic.5; “εὔνους καὶ π.” Id.2.708c; “-έστερα . . τὰς ψυχὰς τὰ θήλεα τῶν ἀρρένων” Arist.Phgn.809a31; “τῷ ἤθει -έστατος” Plu.Phoc.5; “π. τὸ βλέμμα” Luc.Pisc.13; also “π. ὄψις” Men.584; τὸ π. αὐτοῦ the enticement of it, Epict.Ench.34: irreg. Sup. “προσηνότατος” IPE2.197.8 (ii A.D.).
II. Adv. -νῶς gently, “εἰς ὕπνον κατενεχθείς” D.S.2.57; π. λοῦσαι, ἐμβρέξαι, Plu.2.55a,74d; γῆρας π. φέρειν ib.100d; “διάγειν” D.Chr.32.53, cf. Plot.2.1.7: Comp. “-εστέρως, ἡ γεῦσις π. ἀποδέχεται τὰ λιτὰ τῶν ἐδεσμάτων” Plb.38.5.7. (Cf. ἀπηνής.)
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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