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προσκύνησις

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ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. → Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Simonides of Kea
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Transliteration A: proskýnēsis Transliteration B: proskynēsis Transliteration C: proskynisis Beta Code: prosku/nhsis

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A adoration, obeisance, Pl.Lg.887e (pl.); τὰ βαρβαρικά, οἷον προσκυνήσεις Arist.Rh.1361a36, cf. Phld.Piet.69 (pl.), Plu.Alex.54, Arr.An.4.11.8; π. καὶ ἀσπασμός (in a petitioner's letter) PFlor.296.57 (vi A.D.).