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προστάσσω , Att. πρό-ττω; Dor. ποτιτάσσω IG12(1).155.91 (Rhodes), Anon. in PSI9.1091.1, also ποιτάσσω IG42(1).122.39, al. (Epid.): pf.
A.“προστέταχα” LXX Da.2.8:—Pass., 1 aor. προσετάχθην (v. infr.), also 2 aor. προσετάγην ib.Si.3.22:
I. c. acc. pers.,
1. place or post at a place, χωρεῖτε οἷ προστάσσομεν (sc. ὑμᾶς) E.Or.1678: —Pass., “προσταχθέντα . . πύλαις” A.Th.527, cf. S.Ant.670; “ᾗ ἄν τις προσταχθῇ” Th.2.87, cf. 7.70.
2. attach to, πρὸς τοῖσι ἔθνεσι τοὺς πλησιοχώρους π. attaching to certain tribes their next neighbours, Hdt.3.89; π. τινάς τινι assign them to his command, Th.5.8, cf. X. Cyr.7.1.20:—Pass., “Ἰνδοὶ προσετετάχατο . . Φαρναζάθρῃ” Hdt.7.65; “κατὰ τέλη στρατηγῷ τινι προστεταγμένοι” Th.6.42.
3. reversely, ἐπὶ μὲν τῇ [μοίρῃ] ἑωυτὸν π. appointed himself to the one part as their head, Hdt.1.94; π. ἄρχοντά τισι appoint as commander over them, Th.6.93: with dat. omitted, Id.3.16, 8.23:—Pass., ib.8.
II. c. acc. rei, command, prescribe, enjoin, “περὶ βοηθείας ἢ ἄλλο τι προστάττοντες τῆσι πόλεσι” IG12.57.43; ἑκάστῳ ἔργον π., αὑτῷ πόνον π., Hdt. 1.114, E.Ion1176, cf. X.Cyr.4.5.25; “πολὺ ἔργον π. ὡς τηλικῷδε” Pl.Prm. 136d, etc.; “πολλὰς ἐπιμελείας” Arist.Pol.1299b8; “π. μνᾶς ἕξ” prescribe 6 minae, Id.EN1106b2; “τισὶ περί τινος π.” D.19.71:—Pass., τοῖσι δὲ ἵππος προσετέτακτο to others orders had been given to supply cavalry, Hdt.7.21, cf. A.Eu.208; τὰ προσταχθέντα orders given, Hdt.2.121.δ́, cf. Isoc.3.13; “τὸ προστεταγμένον” Hdt.9.104; “τὸ προσταχθέν” Id.1.114, S.Ph.1010; “τὰ προσταχθησόμενα” X.Mem.3.5.6: abs., προσταχθὲν αὐτῷ the order having been given him, Lys.30.2, cf. D.50.12; “πλείω τῶν ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως προσταττομένων δαπανᾶσθαι” Lys.25.13.
2. c. dat. pers. et inf., command, order one to do, Hdt.5.105, 9.99, S. OC1018, Th.7.29, X.Cyr.8.6.3, PEnteux.6.4 (iii B.C.), etc.; the dat. must be supplied in Hdt.1.80, S.OC494, etc.:—Pass., impers., “ἐκέλευε τοῖσι προσετέτακτο ταῦτα πρήσσειν διαταμεῖν” Hdt.7.39; “ὁ βασιλεὺς . . ἢ ἄλλος τις οἷς προστέτακται περὶ τούτων” IG12.94.19.
3. c. acc. et inf., E.Hel.890; both usages in successive clauses, “ὅσα οἱ νόμοι π. τοὺς προσήκοντας ποιεῖν, ἡμῖν π. καὶ ἀναγκάζουσι ποιεῖν” D.43.59:—Pass., to be ordered to do, “τέσσερες . . κῶμαι . . τοῖσι κυσὶ προσετετάχατο σιτία παρέχειν” Hdt.1.192, etc.; ὥσπερ προσετάχθησαν (sc. ἐξεργάσασθαι) Th.5.75.
4. abs., command, order, opp. ὑπηρετέω, Arist.Top.129a12:—Pass., receive orders, ib.14; “οἱ προστεταγμένοι” Th.1.136.
III. Astrol., correl. of ἀκούω v, Ptol.Tetr.35, Heph. Astr.1.9, Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).226.
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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