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προσάπτ-ω , Ep. προτιάπτω ,
A.fasten to or upon, “τύμβῳ π. μηδέν” S.El.432; “στέρνοις στέρνα” E.El.1321 (anap.); κόσμον Πενθεῖ, χλιδὴν τέκνῳ, Id.Ba.859, Ion 27; τὸ ἀντίγραφον . . προσήφαμεν (pf.) we have attached the copy, UPZ22.11 (ii B.C.).
2. attach to, bestow upon, grant, “κῦδος Ἀχιλλῆϊ προτιάπτω” Il.24.110; “π. κλέος τινί” Pi.N.8.37; “τῷ τεθνηκότι τιμάς” S. El.356; “γῇ τῇδε . . ἑορτὴν καὶ τέλη” E.Med.1382; γέρας, ἐγκώμιά τισι, Pl.Sph.231a, Lg.822b; “εὐδαιμονίαν τοῖς φύλαξι” Id.R.420d; τὸ ὄνομα (sc. πῦρ）“ . . προσάψαι . . Ἑλληνικῇ φωνῇ” Id.Cra.410a; “ὠφέλειάν τινι” D. 61.53; in bad sense, fix upon, attach, “μή τι . . χρέος ἐμᾷ πόλει προσάψῃς” S.OC236 (lyr.); “π. τῇ τύχῃ αἰτίαν” Men.1083.4, cf. Porph.Abst.1.7:— Pass., to be bound up with, “σχήματι τοῦ λόγου” A.D.Synt.232.10.
3. c. acc. only, apply, “μεῖζον π. τῆς νόσου τὸ φάρμακον” S.Fr.589, cf. Dsc. Eup.1.74 (Pass.), Archig. ap. Gal.12.873 (Med.); “π. χεῖρα” E.Supp.361; “γνώμην πρός τι” Id.Fr.362.10; “ἀλγηδόνα τινά” Pl.Plt.293b; simply, add, “τό γε εἶναι” Id.Sph.252a.
4. deliver, confide to, “ναυτικόν τινι” X.Ages. 1.36.
5. ascribe, attribute to, ἐκείνῳ (sc. τῷ Θαλῇ）“ τὸ κατανόημα προσάπτουσι” Arist.Pol.1259a8; “π. τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τὴν δάφνην” D.S.1.17; “Ποσειδῶνι τὸ τοὺς ἵππους δαμάσαι” Id.5.69; “τὰ κατορθώματα τῇ τύχῃ” Plb.31.30.3, cf. 4.24.3.
II. intr., fasten oneself to, καί μοι . . ἀγχοῦ προσῆψεν . . ἐν δισκήματι came very near me in the quoit-throw, S.Fr. 380 (dub.); to be added, “εἰ κακοῖς κακὰ προσάψει τοῖς πάλαι” Id.OT667 (lyr.).
III. Med., fasten oneself upon, Arist.Fr.324; lay hold of, touch, τῷ στόματι π. [τινός] X.Mem.1.3.12; “π. τῆς ἀληθείας” Pl.Ti.71e; τῶν οὔλων (v.l. τοῖς οὔλοις) Dsc.1.105.
2. have to do with, meddle with, “ὅτου ἂν π. ἀνδρός” Aeschin.3.114; τῶν πραγμάτων ib.133; τοῦ λόγου, τοῦ πολέμου, D.C.60.26, 44.44; πλέω π. τῶν δυνατῶν attempt more than is possible, Democr.3.
3. of wrestlers, come to grips, Gal.15.197.
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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