Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.receive favourably, accept, τὸ ἐκ Δελφῶν [χρηστήριον] Hdt.1.48, cf. SIG557.11 (Magn. Mae., iii B.C.), etc.; “π. συμμαχίαν” X.HG7.4.2; τὴν φιλίαν, τὰς διαλύσεις, Plb.1.16.8, 1.17.1; also “π. ἑκάστους ἐπὶ . . ὁμολογίαις” Id.3.18.7; receive hospitably, S.OT1428, E.Ph.1706; “ζῶνθ᾽ Ἡρακλῆ” S.Tr. 233.

II. admit, “ἐς τὴν πόλιν” Th.2.12; admit into one's presence, of a king, X.Cyr.7.5.37, HG1.5.9; of a demos receiving foreign emissaries, SIG561.7 (Chalcis, found at Magn. Mae., iii B.C.).

2. admit to citizenship, Pl.Lg.708a, D.57.59; so ποία δὲ χέρνιψ φρατέρων προσδέξεται; A.Eu.656; “τοὺς οἰκέτας π. εἰς τὸ πολίτευμα” IG9(2).517.32 (Epist. Philippi, Larissa, iii B.C.); “π. τινὰ εἰς τοὺς ἐφήβους” Sammelb.7333.40 (Alexandria, ii A.D.); “ὁ προσδεχθησόμενος εἰς τὴν στιβάδα” IG22.1368.52; “ὅταν τις . . προσδεχθῇ εἴς τι τῶν κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἀθλημάτων” Arist. l.c.

3. of the female, “ἡ ἵππος π. τὸν ὄνον” Id.HA577b15, cf. 575b17, Hdt.2.121.έ.

4. admit an argument, π. τὸ ψεῦδος, λόγον ἀληθῆ, Pl.R.485c, 561b, cf. SIG685.130 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.); π. πρόφασιν accept an excuse, PTeb.27.82 (ii B.C.).

5. admit, be capable of, “μήτε γένεσιν μήτε ὄλεθρον” Pl.Phlb.15b; “φθοράν” Id.Ti.52a.

6. undertake, “προσδέχεσθαι μάλα χρὴ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἰήματα” Hp.Art.69; take a liability upon oneself, guarantee, “τὸ ἀνάλωμα” IG5(1).501, 555b, al. (Sparta); credit a sum to a person or an account, PHib.1.58 (iii B.C.), PSI4.372.9 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.306.11, 355.69, al. (iii B.C.), Ostr.1089 (ii B.C.), Ostr.Bodl. i 256 (ii B.C.), etc.

III. await, expect, the only sense in Hom., in Ep. part. ποτιδέγμενος waiting for or expecting, “δῶρον” Od.2.186; σὴν ὁρμήν ib.403; “σὸν μῦθον” 7.161; “ἡμέας” 9.545; “λαῶν ὀτρυντύν” Il.19.234; ἀγγελίην ib.336; so later, “προσδεκομένους τοιοῦτον οὐδέν” Hdt.3.146, cf. S.Tr.15, E.Alc. 131 (lyr.), etc.; “παρὰ ἃ προσεδέχετο” Th.4.19; τῷ Νικίᾳ προσδεχομένῳ ἦν τὰ παρὰ τῶν Ἐγεσταίων was according to his expectation, Id.6.46; π. τινός τι expect anything from anybody, Antipho Soph.10: c. acc. et inf. fut., “οὐδὲν πάντως προσεδέκοντο . . τὸν στόλον ὁρμήσεσθαι” Hdt.5.34, cf. 6.100, 7.156, al., Th.4.9; “πολεμίους παρέσεσθαι” X.Cyr.4.5.22: c. part. fut., “τοῦτον π. ἐπαναστησόμενον” Hdt.1.89; πανταχόθεν π. τοὺς πολεμίους await them, Plb.2.69.6, etc.

2. wait, “ἥατ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροις ποτιδέγμεναι” Il.2.137, cf. 9.628, Od.2.205, etc.; “π. ὁππότ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔλθοι” Il.7.415; π. εἰ c. opt., Od.23.91.