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προσίημι , fut. προσήσω, Med.
A.“-ήσομαι” X.Cyr.7.1.13: aor. 1 προσῆκα, Med. “-ηκάμην” E.El.622:—let come to, “πρὸς τὸ πῦρ τοὺς ὀψίζοντας” X.An.4.5.5, cf. Cyr.7.5.39; admit, POxy.1070.55 (iii A.D.); apply, “ἀπειρηκότι τὰ προβόλια” X.Cyn.10.21.
II. more freq. in Med., let come to or near one, admit, προσίεσθαί τινα ἐς ταὐτὸ ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς admit one into our society, Id.An.3.1.30; “π. τινὰ εἰς ὁμιλίαν” Pl.Phdr.255a; ἐγγὺς π. [τοὺς Ἕλληνας] let them approach, X. An.4.2.12; “π. τὸν πόλεμον εἰς τὴν χώραν” D.9.51; of animals, “ἵπποι χαλεπῶς π. ἃ πρόδηλα αὐτοῖς ἐστιν” X.Eq.3.3; “τιθασεύεται καὶ π. τὰς χεῖρας” Arist.HA608a26; “π. τὰ παιδάρια τῷ μαστῷ” Plu.Cat.Ma. 20.
2. admit, allow, believe, “τοῦτο μὲν οὐδὲ προσίεμαι” Hdt.1.75; “οὐ π. τὴν διαβολήν” Id.6.123; “προσηκάμην τὸ ῥηθέν” E.El.622; π. τὰ κεκηρυγμένα agree to the proposed terms, Th.4.38, cf. 108; “τοῦτον [τρόπον] οὐδαμῇ προσίεμαι” Pl.Phd.97b.
b. admit, accept, submit to, “ξεινικὰ νόμαια” Hdt.1.135; “ὀχείαν” Arist.HA574a33; “ἧτταν” X.Cyr. 3.3.45; τὸ ὑπαίτιον εἶναί τινι οὐ πάνυ π. Id.Mem.2.8.5; π. φάρμακον take it, ib.4.2.17; “ἡ ψυχὴ σῖτον οὐ προσίετο” Id.Cyr.8.7.4; “οἶνον” Alex.255.3; “προσήκατο ὁ δαίμων ἀντὶ ἀνθρώπου τὸν βοῦν” Porph.Abst. 2.55.
c. accept, allow, approve, “τὴν προδοσίην” Hdt.6.10; “τὸ δ᾽ ἄκαιρον . . μὴ προσείμαν” E.Fr.893 (lyr.); “τὰ αἰσχρὰ ἥκιστα προσίεσθαι” X.Mem.2.6.18; “οὐδαμῇ π. οἱ θεοὶ τὸν πόλεμον” Id.An.5.5.3; “πονηρίαν” D.25.1; κακὸν οὐδὲν οὐδ᾽ αἰσχρὸν π. X.Cyr.7.1.13.
d. accept a currency, “νόμισμα” POxy.1411.6, 11 (iii A.D.), cf. PFay.21.23 (ii A.D.).
3. c. inf., undertake, venture to do, Pl.Lg.908b, X.Mem.2.7.11; προσεῖτ᾽ ἂν ἀποθανεῖν would submit to death, Alex.193; “π. κακίονες ἢ πρόσθεν γενέσθαι” X.Cyr.7.5.83.
4. c. acc. pers., attach to oneself, attract, οὐδὲν προσίετό μιν nothing moved or pleased him, Hdt.1.48; ἓν δ᾽ οὐ προσίεταί με one thing pleases me not, Ar.Eq.359; “τοῦτ᾽ οὐ δύναταί με προσέσθαι” Id.V.742; προσίεται (sc. Laïs) . . “καὶ γέροντα καὶ νέον” Epicr.3.23.
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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