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προσπέτομαι , fut. -πτήσομαι: aor. -επτάμην [α^], but poet. also with aor. Act. προσέπτην (v. infr.):—
A.fly to or towards, πόθεν προσέπτανθ᾽ （-έπτονθ᾽ Dawes) οἱ βομβαύλιοι; Ar.Ach.865; “πρός τι” Arist. HA593a8; “ἐάν τίς σοι φίλος ὥσπερ μυῖα πρόσπτηται” X.Mem.3.11.5.
II. generally, come upon one suddenly, come over one, “ὀδμὰ προσέπτα μ᾽ ἀφεγγής” A.Pr.115 (lyr.); μέλος προσέπτα μοι music stole over my sense, ib.555 (lyr.); of evil, misfortune, etc., τίς . . ἀρχὴ τοῦ κακοῦ προσέπτατο; S.Aj.282, cf.A.Pr.644, E.Alc.421.
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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