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πρόσφορ-ος , Dor. ποτίφ- (q.v.), ον,
A.serviceable, useful, “τὰ π. τῇ στρατιῇ” Hdt.7.20, cf. S.OC 1774 (anap.), etc.: abs., “ἐκπορίζεσθαι ἃ πρόσφορα ἦν” Th.1.125, cf. 7.62.
2. suitable, fitting, κόσμος, κόμπος, Pi.N.3.31, 8.48, cf. E. Heracl.480, etc.; “π. καὶ οἰκεῖον” Epicur.Fr.250 (= Metrod.Fr.1 K.): c. dat., Pi.N.7.63, E.Supp.338, Hec.1246, Ar.V.809, Av.124 (Comp.), prob. in Pi.N.9.7; “τροφαί” Antiph.62; οὐχὶ πρόσφορος ἁμερίῳ γέννᾳ suitable to, agreeing with, E.Ph.129 (lyr.): c. inf., οὐ πρόσφορον μολεῖν 'tis not fit or meet to go, A.Eu.207, cf. Pi.O.9.81, Ocell.4.12; “ζῴοις πρόσφορα ἐσθίειν” J.BJ6.3.3.
3. πρόσφορον, τό, what is fitting or suitable, Arist.EN1180b12; “ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ ζητεῖ τὸ π.” Id.HA615a26: c. gen., μακρᾶς κελεύθου . . τὰ π. attendance meet after a long journey, A.Ch.711, cf. 714; “τὰ π. τῆς νῦν παρούσης ξυμφορᾶς” E.Hel.509: abs., τὰ πρόσφορα things meet or due, esp. for the dead, Hdt.4.14, E.Alc. 148; “τὰ π. πάντα” Ar.Pax1025 (lyr.): τὰ π. as Adv., fitly, E.Hipp.112, cf. 1361 (anap.): regul.Adv., “-ρως ἔχειν τινί” Thphr.CP4.7.2, cf. Phld. Herc.1457.7.
II. πρόσφορα, τά, that which is taken or eaten, f.l. in Hp.VM24; cf. “προσφορά” 111.2.
III. πρόσφορα, τά, revenues, rents, PTeb.88.15 (ii B.C.), POxy.1208.22 (iii A.D.), 1829.4 (vi A.D.), etc.; τὰ Ἀριστίππου λεγόμενα π. the place called Aristippus's Rents, PPetr. 2p.56 (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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