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πρόσγειος , Dor. ποτίγειος , ον, (γέα, γῆ)
A.near the earth, of the moon, “ποτιγειοτάτα” Ti.Locr.96d, cf. Stoic.2.196（Comp.); -ότερος, of a planet, Arist.Mu.392a16, cf. Cleom.2.6 (Sup.); “-ότατος ἡμῖν ὁ καρκίνος” Porph. Antr.21; “-όταται πτήσεις” Ph.2.114, cf. Plu.2.727f; “ψυχαί” Ph.1.641; τὰ π. mundane things, opp. μετάρσια, Placit.3.8.2; “ἡ π. περὶ τὸν ἀέρα ταχυτής” Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.11.
II. keeping inshore, of fish, opp. πελάγιος, Arist.HA525a15, 598a2; οἱ π. τόποι τῆς θαλάσσης ib.598a7; τὰ π. ib.597a17; of islands, Id.Mete.368b33; of sea-plants, Thphr. HP4.6.2, Dsc.4.179 (Comp.).
III. near the ground, ταπεινὸς καὶ π. Luc.Prom.1.
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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