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προμνάομαι ,
A.woo or court for another, Pl.Tht.150a; “τινί τινα” Luc. Herod.6; ἡ προμνησαμένη, = προμνήστρια, X.Mem.2.6.36: metaph., Pl.Tht.151b; προμνᾶταί τί μοι γνώμα my mind woos me to hope, c. inf., S.OC1075: c. dat., woo themes for others, Pl.Mx.239c.
2. generally, endeavour to obtain, solicit, “τοιαυ-τα π. ἑκάστῳ προσιών” X. An.7.3.18; π. αὐτῷ Κιλικίαν solicit it for him, Plu.Luc.6; “κωφότητα π.” Id.2.38b.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 151b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 150a
    • Plato, Menexenus, 239c
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1075
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.3.18
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.6.36
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 6
    • Lucian, Herodotus, 6
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