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προσερέω , Att. contr. προσερῶ , used as fut. of προσαγορεύω, προσεῖπον being used as aor.: pf. προσείρηκα, -ημαι, Pl.Ti.31a, Cra.403a: —Pass., fut. προσρηθήσομαι (v. infr.): aor. προσερρήθην (v. infr.):—
A.speak to, address, accost, τινα E.Alc.1005 (lyr.), Pl.Phd.60a; “οὔτις ἦν οὕτω κακός, ὃν οὐ προσεῖπε καὶ προσερρήθη πάλιν” E.Alc.195, cf. 942; of one who addresses a god, Hdt.5.72.
2. c. dupl. acc., call by a name, πολίτας ἀλλήλους π. Pl.R.463a; ἕνα οὐρανὸν π. Id.Ti.31a; τί προσεροῦμεν ὄνομα συμπάσας δυνάμεις; Id.Sph.227b; τινὰ ταὐτὸν π. ὄνομα ib.224b:—Pass., “βασιλικὸς προσρηθήσεται” Id.Plt.259b, cf. Cra. 403a.
II. Pass., to be enjoined, commanded, Aristid.1.484J.
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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