Ancient Greek

Verb

προσέρχομαι • ‎(prosérkhomai)

1. to come or go to
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 285
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1104
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.47
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.38
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 474
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1539
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 68
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1205
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 171
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1171
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 589, (compare Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1076)
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 289.D
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 327.B
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493.B
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.86
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.199
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 777
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 857
   1. (in a hostile sense)
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.16
   2. to surrender, capitulate
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.59
   3. to come forward to speak
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 13
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 85.17
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cato the Younger 12
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 257
      • 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 104.18
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 30
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.3.3
   4. to come in supplication
      • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 56.9
   5. to be engaged in or with
      • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Collected Works 109
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 1.95
   6. (of things) to be added
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption 1.5.24
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 1.18.17
2. to come in
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.144
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 185.8
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.6.12

Inflection

References

• προσέρχομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• προσέρχομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «προσέρχομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4334”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «προσέρχομαι» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften