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προτείνω ,
A.stretch out before, hold before, “τὸν χαλινόν” X.Eq.6.11 (Pass.); [“ὁ ναυτίλος] π. τὰς πλεκτάνας” Arist.HA525a28.
2. expose to danger, “ψυχὴν . . προτείνων” S.Aj.1270.
3. metaph., hold out as a pretext or excuse, “π. πρόφασιν” Hdt.1.156; “σκῆψιν” E.El.1067; “θεούς” S.Ph.992; “παιδὸς θάνατον” E.Andr.428:—Med., “π. τὴν ἡλικίαν” Pl.Ep.317c.
II. stretch forth, hold out, χεῖρα, as a suppliant, Archil.130; “τὰς χεῖρας” Hdt.1.45, 7.233 (for punishment, Ps.-Callisth. 2.2); “φύλλον οἱ ἱκέται προτείνουσι” Call.Iamb.1.275a (“προτιμῶσι” 275); also προτείνει χεὶρ ἐκ χερὸς ὀρέγματα (Herm. for ὀρεγόμενα) A.Ag. 1110 (lyr.); π. ἑαυτόν leaning forward, Pl.R.449b: hence intr., stretch forward, προτείνουσα εἰς τὸ πέλαγος [ἄκρα] Id.Criti.111a, cf. Plb.1.29.2, etc.
2. π. χεῖρα δεξιάν offer, tender it as a pledge, S.Ph. 1292, cf. Tr.1184, E.Alc.1118, etc.; “π. πίστιν” D.23.117.
3. hold out, offer, “μεγάλα π. ἐπ᾽ οἷσι ὁμολογέειν ἐθέλουσι” Hdt.8.140.“β́; κέρδος” A.Pr.777; “τελετάς” E.Ba.238; “κάλλος” Id.Hel.28; “φάντασμα” Pl.R. 382a; “ἐλπίδα” E.Fr.131; “δραχμὰς εἴκοσιν” Ar.Pl.1019; “ἐλευθερίαν” Antipho 5.50; “δέλεαρ π. τὴν ἡδονήν” Plu.2 13a; “ἐμοὶ λόγους” Pl.Phdr.230d: c. inf., “π. τινὶ λαβεῖν ὅ τι χρῄζει” X.Oec.5.8:—Med., Hdt.5.24, 7.161; “ἔρωτα” Pl.Phdr.266b; “φιλίαν προτενεῖται” D.14.5; “τὴν ἀειλογίαν” Id.19.2:—Pass., “δυοῖν προτεινομένοιν ἀγαθοῖν” Isoc.6.37, cf. 12.117.
4. put forward, propose, π. ζητήματα, ἐρωτήματα, Plu.2.737d, Arr.Epict. 3.8.1; “αἴνιγμά τινι” D.L.2.70, etc.:—Med., offer or put forward as instances, Pl.Grg.518b:—Pass., Sor.2.1, Iamb.Myst.1.3.
5. Med . . μισθὸν προτείνασθαι stipulate for as a reward, Hdt.9.34.
III. put forward as a proposition (“πρότασις” 1.1), Arist.APr.47a15, Top. 104a5, al.:—Med., ib.164b4:—Pass., ib.7.
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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