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προσεύχομαι , fut.
A.“-ξομαι” A.Ag.317:—offer prayers or vows, “θεοῖς” A. l.c., cf. E.Hipp.116, al., etc.; “τῷ ἡλίῳ” Pl.Smp.220d; “θεῷ π. σωτηρίαν ἡμῖν διδόναι” Id.Criti.106a, cf. X.Cyr.2.1.1.
2. c. acc., π. τὸν θεόν address him in prayer, Ar.Pl.958, cf. E.Tr.887.
3. abs., offer prayers, worship, Hdt.1.48, A.Pr.937, S.Ant.1337, etc.; π. γλώσσῃ, πνεύματι, νοΐ, 1 Ep.Cor.14.14,15.
II. c. acc. rei, pray for a thing, “νίκην πολέμου” X.HG3.2.22: c.inf., “ἕλκειν τὸ βέδυ π.” Philyll.20; ζῆσαι προσεύχου pray for life, Epigr.Gr.1040.11 (Adada): folld. by τοῦ c. inf., Ep.Jac.5.17; π. ἵνα . ., περί τινων ὅπως, Ev.Matt.24.20, Act.Ap. 8.15.
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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