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προσαρμόζω , later Att. προ-όττω ,
A.fit to, attach closely to, “μαστῷ τέκνα” E.Ion 762; τῷ προσαρμόσω στόμα; Id.HF486; “γυμνὰς ἐκ <πέπλων> ἐπωμίδας κώπῃ π.” Id.IT1405; “τι εἴς τι” Pl.Tht.193c, cf. 194a:— Pass., “δρέπανα περὶ τοῖς ἄξοσι προσήρμοσται” X.Cyr.6.2.17; “προσήρμοσται [τὸ πηδάλιον] τῷ πλοίῳ” Arist.Mech.850b32.
2. metaph., adapt, “ὄνομα πράγματι” Pl.Cra.414d; “ἕκαστον ἑκάστῳ” Id.Phdr.271b; “π. ἑαυτὸν πρός τινα” Plu.2.52b; ῥυθμοὺς π. [μέλει] set measures, Pl.Lg.669c.
3. c. acc. only, “χέρας π.” E.Supp.816 (lyr.); π. τὴν χεῖρα fit it on to the stump, X.Cyr.7.3.9; π. ξύλα to a broken rudder, Plu.Brut.46; ἀντὶ δώρων δῶρα π. add fitting gifts, S.Tr.494.
II. intr., attach oneself, Arist.GA718a28; “κύκλος προσαρμόττων κέντρῳ” Plot.4.4.16.
2. suit or agree with a thing, “τὸ προσαρμόττον ἑκάστῃ φύσει εἶδος” Pl.Phdr. 277c; “πρός τι” X.Cyr.8.4.21.
III. Med., fit on to oneself, Aesar. ap.Stob.1.49.27.
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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