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προσμένω , Dor. ποτι- SIG615.7 (Delph., ii B.C.):—
A.bide, wait, “χρόνον πολλόν” Hdt.1.199, cf. 5.19; “σῖγ᾽ ἔχουσα πρόσμενε” S.El.1236, cf. 1399; ἡσυχάζων π. Id.OT620; π. χρόνον ὀλίγον ἔστ᾽ ἂν . . , π. ἕως . . , Hdt.8.4, X.HG2.4.7.
2. c. dat., remain attached to, cleave to, “πάθεα π. τοκεῦσιν” A.Eu.497 (lyr.); “τῷ Κυρίῳ” Act.Ap.11.23; π. ταῖς δεήσεσιν continue in . . , 1 Ep.Ti.5.5; “ταῖς ἑαυτῶν ἀγωγαῖς” Gal.15.436.
II. trans., wait for, await, c. acc., Thgn.1144, S.OT837, El.164(lyr.), etc.; face in battle, stand one's ground against, “δορίκτυπον ἀλαλάν” Pi.N.3.60: c. acc. et inf. fut., “Ὀρέστην τῶνδε προσμένουσ᾽ ἀεὶ παυστῆρ᾽ ἐφήξειν” S.El.303.
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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