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|Definition=fut.<br><span class="bld">A</span> προσκυνήσω Hippon.32 (tm.), Pl.''R.''469a: aor. προσεκύνησα [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''5.3.18; ''poet.'' προσέκῠσα [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''640, imper. [[πρόσκυσον]] ib. 156, S.''Ph.''776, inf. <b class="b3">προσκύσαι</b> ib.657, part. <b class="b3">προσκύσας</b> ib.533, 1408 (troch.): pf. προσκεκύνηκα [[LXX]] ''Ex.''32.8, ''OGI''196.2 (Egypt, i B.C.):—Pass., pres. inf. [[προσκυνεῖσθαι]] E.''Tr.''1021: aor. προσεκυνήθην Arr.''An.''4.11.9:—[[make obeisance]] to the [[god]]s or their [[image]]s, [[fall down and worship]], c. acc., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.121, etc.; γῆν τε π. ἅμα καὶ τὸν θεῶν Ὄλυμπον [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]'' 1654, cf. [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''499, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''156: [[proverb|prov.]], [[οἱ προσκυνοῦντες τὴν Ἀδράστειαν σοφοί]] = those who [[bow]] to [[necessity|Necessity]] are [[wise]] (of [[deprecating]] the [[wrath]] of [[Nemesis]]), [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''936, cf. Pl.''R.''451a; τὸν φθόνον δὲ πρόσκυσον S.''Ph.''776; <b class="b3">στεῖχε προσκύσας χθόνα</b>, to avert divine wrath, ib.1408 (troch.); of [[sacred]] [[place]]s, [[do reverence to]], πατρῷα ἕδη θεῶν Id.''El.''1374; τὰς θήκας Pl.''R.''469b; τὴν θόλον D.19.314: abs., [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''640.<br><span class="bld">2</span> especially of the [[Oriental]] [[fashion]] of [[prostrate|prostrating]] oneself [[before]] [[king]]s and [[superior]]s, abs., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.119, 8.118: c. acc., <b class="b3">προσκυνέω τὸν Δαρεῖον</b> [[make obeisance]] to him, Id.3.86; <b class="b3">προσκυνεῖν διδάσκονται τὸν βασιλέα [οἱ ἐλέφαντες]</b> [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''630b20; <b class="b3">προσπίπτων προσκυνέει</b> [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.134, cf. 7.136; πάντες σε προσκυνοῦμεν οἵδ' ἱκτήριοι [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''327; προσκυνῶ σ', [[ἄναξ]], προσπίτνων [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Orestes|Or.]]''1507 (troch.), cf. [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''5.3.18, 8.3.14, Plu.''Them.'' 27, Arr. [[l.c.]], etc.; κύψας ὁ λαὸς προσεκύνησεν [[LXX]] ''Ex.''12.27; <b class="b3">οὐδένα ἄνθρωπον δεσπότην ἀλλὰ τοὺς θεοὺς προσκυνεῖτε</b> X.''An.''3.2.13; [[προσκυνεῖν]] τοὺς ὑβρίζοντας ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς βαρβάροις D.21.106: ironically, προσκυνοῖμεν ἂν αὐτὸν ὡς ἱερὸν καὶ θαυμαστόν Pl.''R.''398a: later c. dat., [[LXX]] ''Ge.''24.26, al., ''Ev.Matt.''2.2, ''ΙΙ'', ''Ev.Jo.''4.23, D.C.67.13; τῳ θεῷ J.''AJ''9.13.2. (Orig. perhaps [[throw a kiss to]] the [[god]], cf. Apul.''Met.''4.28: the [[gesture]] is probably represented in [[Sumerian]] and [[Babylonian]] [[art]] [[monument]]s.)<br><span class="bld">II</span> later, [[kiss]], σοῦ προσκυνήσω τὴν χεῖρα ''BGU''423.15 (ii A.D.); <b class="b3">τὸ πρόσωπον, τὴν ὄψιν, τοὺς πόδας</b>, ''PLond.''3.1244.4 (iv A.D.), ''PGiss.''22.5 (ii A.D.), ''PGen.'' 91.6 (vi/vii A.D.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[greet]], <b class="b3">σπουδάζουσα προσκυνῆσαί σε</b> (by letter) ''BGU'' 615.8 (ii A.D.); ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἵνα ὑμᾶς προσκυνήσω διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου ''PLips.'' 110.19 (iii/iv A.D.), cf. ''PGiss.''17.11 (ii A.D.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[welcome]] [[respectfully]], [[respect]], προσεκύνησά σου τὰ [[γράμμα]]τα ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''237 vi 37 (ii A.D.), cf. ''PTeb.''286.22 (ii A.D.), etc.; τὴν θείαν ἀντιγραφὴν ὑπὸ πάντων προσκυνουμένην ''OGI''262.27 (Baetocaece, iii A.D.).