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προσδέω (B),
A.need besides, c. gen. rei, λύπης τι προσδεῖς; E.HF90; [“τόπους] ποτιδέοντας βοαθείας” SIG569.7 (Halasarna, iii B.C.); to be deficient in, “ἐὰν δέ του προσδέῃ τόδε τὸ ψήφισμα τῶν περὶ τὸν ἀπόστολον” IG22.1629.264, cf. Supp.Epigr.3.674.18(Rhodes, ii B.C., ποτι-).
2. mostly impers. προσδεῖ , there is still need of, c. gen. rei, “ὡς ἐκκαυμάτων μή μοι μεταξὺ προσδεήσειεν” S.Fr.225; “ναυτικὸν οὗπερ ὑμῖν μάλιστα προσδεῖ” Th.3.13, cf. 1.68, X.An.5.6.1, IG22.204.66; “εἴ τινος ἔτι π. τῇ συγκράσει” Pl.Phlb.64b; προσδεῖν ἔφη πρὸς τὸν μισθόν that there was wanting something to make it up, Lys.19.22; “τὸ ἐπίλοιπον, οὗ προσέδει εἰς τὰς εἴκοσι μνᾶς” D.59.31: c. inf., “οὐκέτι προσδεῖ ἐρέσθαι” Pl.Smp.205a; distd. from ἐνδεῖ, D.1.19.
II. more freq. in Med. προσδέομαι , Dor. ποτιδεύομαι Theoc.5.63: fut. -δεήσομαι: aor. -εδεήθην:—to be in want of, stand in need of besides, τινος Th.1.102, 2.41, Lys.19.21, X.HG7.4.2; ἔτι ταῦτα μαντείας -δεῖται; Aeschin.1.76, cf. Pl.Phlb.63c, etc.: with neut. Adj., ἢν . . τι προσδέωμαι if I be at all in want, X.Cyr.1.3.17: with inf. added, “τοῦ ἱεροῦ προεστάναι οὐδὲν π.” Id.HG7.4.35; desire much, τινος Id.An.5.9.24.
2. rarely impers., Pl.Demod.384b, Alc.2.138b, X.Ages.1.5, IG22.380.11.
3. beg or ask of another, “τί τινος” Hdt.6.35; οὐδὲν τῶν ἐκεῖνος ἡμέων προσεδέετο (i.e. οὐδὲν τούτων ἃ . . ) Id.8.144, cf. 3.75: rarely in this sense c. gen. rei, “γυναικὸς οὐ προσδεόμεθά σευ τῆς ἐξέσιος” Id.5.40: c. gen. pers. et inf., Id.1.36, 8.40; “προσδέονται Ἀθηναίων συμπράττειν” IG22.1.46: without gen., “π. λύσαντας . . ἀποπλέειν” Hdt.6.41: abs., “προσδεηθήσεται” LXXSi.13.3 (s.v.l.).
4. permit, “ὁ καιρὸς οὐδεμιᾶς ὑπερβολῆς προσδεῖται” PPetr.2p.119 (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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