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προσεπι-λαμβάνω ,
A.bandage something to something else, “ταινίῃ τὸν βραχίονα περὶ τὸ στῆθος περιδέοντα” Hp.Fract.8:—Med., cj. in Sor.Fasc.26.
2. take or require still more, Thphr.HP8.2.7: c. gen., Porph.Abst.2.27; take in, occupy besides, Plb.10.10.5, Gem. 18.3; receive in addition, “τὴν ἐποπτείαν” Plu.Demetr.26; “παλάθην ἰσχάδων” Luc.Pisc.41; τοῦ δημοσίου a piece of public land, Plu.Publ. 20: abs., encroach, Thphr.Ign.50.
3. extend, increase, “τῷ πλήθει τὴν ἐξουσίαν” Arist.Ath.41.2.
II. Med., lay hold besides, [“τινὸς] κατὰ τὸ γόνυ” Hp.Fract.13: metaph., help in a thing besides, “προσεπιλαβέσθαι τοῦ πολέμου” Hdt.5.44; τοῦ ἔργου take part in it, D.C.75.6: abs., attack besides, Pl.Ti.65d.
2. touch on besides, Paus.3.6.9.
3. receive part of, “τῶν χωρίων” D.S.19.9 (v.l.).
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 (12):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 41.2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.44
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.6.9
    • Plato, Timaeus, 65d
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.10.5
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 13
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 8
    • Plutarch, Publicola, 20
    • Plutarch, Demetrius, 26
    • Lucian, Piscator, 41
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.9
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 75.6
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