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προσερείδω , pf.
A.“προσήρεικα” Plb.1.11.10, “προσερήρεικα” Plu.Aem. 19: pf. part. Pass. “προσερηρεισμένος” Hp.Art.78, Arist.Mech.853a35: —plant or set firmly against, “κλίμακας τείχει” Plb.4.19.3, cf. 5.60.8, Plu.Arat.7; “πηλὸν τοίχοις” Id.2.983b; ἡ φύσις τὸ ἰσχίον εἰς μέσον προσήρεισεν fixed it firmly, Arist.PA695a11; Ὠκεανῷ π. Μακεδονίαν make it bounded by the O., Plu.2.332a; “τὸ βλέμμα π. τινί” Hld.1.21:—Pass., of a bandage, Gal.14.793.
2. thrust violently against, “τὰς λόγχας πρός τι” Plb.15.33.4; “τὰς σαρίσσας τοῖς θυρεοῖς” Plu.Aem. 19; “τῷ τόπῳ ξύλον” POxy.69.3 (ii A.D.); give additional force, Ascl. Tact.7.4.
II. Med., lean upon, “τοῖς γόνασι τὴν κεφαλήν” J.AJ8.13.6.
III. intr., fix itself, “πρὸ τοῦ τὴν ἐπιδορατίδα πρός τι προσερεῖσαι” Plb.6.25.5; press against, Ph.Bel.67.31; “π. ταῖς χερσὶ πρὸς τὰ νῶτά τινος” Plb.13.7.10; besiege, “παντὶ τῷ στρατεύματι πρὸς Α᾿κράγαντα” Id.1.17.8, cf. 1.11.10.
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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