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προσανα-παύω ,
A.cause to rest also or beside, “τὴν δύναμιν ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας” Plb.4.73.3; “τὴν χεῖρα τῇ γαστρί τινος” J.AJ 20.2.1.
II. Med. or Pass., sleep beside, “τῇ γυναικί” Nicostr. ap. Stob. 4.23.65.
2. rest by leaning upon, “δένδροις” Str.16.4.10; “τοῖς θυρεοῖς” Plu.Sull.28; rest upon, Sor.1.7,100; of a shipwrecked sailor, cling to a plank, Favorin.in PVat.11.23.36.
3. of words in a sentence, to be otiose, D.H.Dem.40.
4. rely on, τεχνίῳ, τέχνῃ, M.Ant.4.31, S.E.M.11.178; τινι J.AJ6.14.3, Marcellin.Puls.227.
5. find relief in the society of, [φίλῳ] Arr.Epict.3.13.2; also, find rest in, “τῇ σοφίᾳ” LXX Wi.8.16.
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 (7):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 20.2.1
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 6.14.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.73.3
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 28
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 40
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 4.31
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