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προσγίγνομαι , Ion. and later προσγίν- [ι_],
A.attach oneself to another, esp. as an ally, τινι Hdt.5.103, Th.7.50, etc.; “οἱ προσγεγενημένοι ξύμμαχοι” Id.6.6, cf. Hdt.4.120, Plu.Them.7: abs., Hdt.4.120, 8.136; θαρσεῖν τοῖς προσγιγνομένοις by the reinforcements, Th.2.79, cf. X.Cyr.7.5.4; “μὴ παραγενέσθαι τῇ μάχῃ, ἀλλὰ π. μετὰ τὴν μάχην” Plu. Ant.22; also in political strife, “προσγενομένου τοῦ δήμου αὐτῷ” Hdt.6.136, cf. 110.
2. generally, to be added, accrue, E.Andr.702, Th.1.142, al.; ἐκ τῶν σιτίων ταῖς σαρξὶ σάρκες π. Pl.Phd.96d; “τὰ μέν γε τῇ τέχνῃ πράσσειν, τὰ δὲ ἡμῖν ἀνάγκῃ καὶ τύχῃ προσγίγνεται” Agatho 8, cf. Pl.R.346d; opp. ἀπογίγνομαι, χωρίζομαι, Zeno Eleat.2, Pl.Ti. 82b, Arist.GC315a16.
3. come to, happen to, τοῖς γὰρ θανοῦσι μόχθος οὐ π. S.Tr.1173; “γνώσει . . θυμοῦ τελευτήν, ὡς κακὴ π.” Id.OC 1198, cf. El.771, Lys.24.8, Pl.Ti.86e, etc.
4. become in addition, “πρὸς τῷ θυμοειδεῖ ἔτι π. φιλόσοφος” Id.R.375e.
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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    • Euripides, Andromache, 702
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.136
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.120
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.136
    • Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension, 8
    • Plato, Republic, 375e
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    • Sophocles, Electra, 771
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.79
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.142
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.5.4
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.50
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