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προσπίτνω , poet. for προσπίπτω (v. πίτνω),
A.fall upon a person's neck, embrace, “τοῖς φιλτάτοις” E.El.576; “νεκρῷ” Id.Med.1205; “ἀμφὶ γενειάδα” Id.HF1208 (lyr.).
2. come in, come upon the scene, Id.Ph. 1429.
II. of things, fall upon, “ἰοὶ προσπίτνοντες ὤλλυσαν” A.Pers. 461; of passion, σοὶ φρενῶν χόλος π. E.Med.1266 (lyr.).
III. fall down to or before, supplicate, abs., “αἰτοῦ δὲ προσπίτνουσα” S.El.453: c. dat., “προσπίτνομέν σοι” Id.OC1754 (anap.): more freq. c. acc., A. Pers.152 (anap.), E.Ph.924, Andr.537 (anap.), Tr.762; “ἐμὸν γόνυ” Id.Supp.10; “μνῆμα” Id.Hel.64; “προσπίτνω σε γόνασι” S.Ph.485; γονυπετεῖς ἕδρας π. τινά fall before one in kneeling posture, E.Ph.293 (lyr.): c. inf., π. σε μὴ θανεῖν I beseech thee that I may not die, Id.El. 221.
IV. fall upon, attack, τινα Id.Ba.1115.
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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