προσπίπτω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Dor. ποτιπίπτω <span class="bibl">Archyt. 1</span>: fut. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> -πεσοῦμαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>350</span>: for <b class="b3">ποτιπεπτηυῖαι</b>, v. [[προσπτήσσω]]:—<b class="b2">fall upon, strike against</b>, <b class="b3">ἔς τι</b> v.l. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>855</span>; τινι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>7.6</span>, etc.; πρός τι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Aud.</span>800a2</span>, al.; <b class="b2">fall against</b>, as a mound against a wall, <span class="bibl">Th.2.75</span>; but <b class="b3">πρὸς τὸ οὖς προσπίπτων</b> is dub. l. in <span class="bibl">Thphr. <span class="title">Char.</span>2.10</span> (<b class="b3">προσκύπτων</b> cj. Valckenaer). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">fall upon, attack, assault</b>, <b class="b3">πόλεσιν, ὁπλίταις</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.5</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.2.3</span>, etc.: abs., <span class="bibl">Th.3.30</span>,<span class="bibl">103</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.1.38</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> simply, <b class="b2">run to</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.2</span>, <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.4.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">fall upon, embrace</b>, τινι E. l.c., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IA</span>1191</span>: hence, <b class="b3">π. τινί</b> <b class="b2">join the party of</b> another, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>7.1.42</span>; also, <b class="b2">fasten on</b>, in argument, τῇ διαφορᾷ <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Sign.</span>36</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b2">fall in with, meet with, encounter</b>, μὴ λάθῃ με προσπεσών <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>46</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">156</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span> 270a</span>: c. dat. rei, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tht.</span>154b</span>; <b class="b2">fall in with</b>, δυστυχεστάτῳ κλήρῳ <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">Tr.</span>291</span> (lyr.); αἰσχρᾷ ἐπιθυμίᾳ <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ap.</span>30</span>; μεγίσταις ἡδοναῖς <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 637a</span>; <b class="b3">δήγματι</b> to be bitten, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>6.51</span>: c. acc., μείζω βροτείας π. ὁμιλίας <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>19</span>: with a Prep., πρὸς τὰς τῶν φυλάκων ψυχάς <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 906b</span>; <b class="b3">εἰς βράχεα, πρὸς τὰ κοινά</b>, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.39.3</span>, Plu.2.788c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of things, </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> of events, accidents, etc., <b class="b2">come suddenly upon, befall</b> one, τινι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>225</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IT</span>1229</span> (troch.), <span class="bibl">Antipho 3.3.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>396d</span>; τὰ προσπίπτονθ' ἡμῖν δείματα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>791c</span>, etc.: abs., ἄτην προσπεσοῦσαν ἐνεῖκαι <span class="bibl">Hdt. 1.32</span>; <b class="b3">αἱ συμφοραὶ προσπίπτουσαι</b> misfortunes <b class="b2">by befalling</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.7.46</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Isoc.<span class="title">Ep.</span>5.4</span>; αἱ π. χρεῖαι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>31.7</span> (iii B.C.); αἱ π. τύχαι <span class="bibl">Th.1.84</span>; τὰ προσπεσόντα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>505</span>; γενναίως φέρειν τὰ προσπίπτοντα Stob.4.44 tit.; οἱ τὰ π. κρίναντες χρηματισταί <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.53</span> (iii B.C.); ἡ π. ἐπιθυμία <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>561c</span>; <b class="b3">πρὸς τὰ προσπίπτοντα</b> according to <b class="b2">circumstances</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1286a11</span>; οἱ προσπίπτοντες κίνδυνοι <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Fr.</span>117</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ</b> π. εἰς τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Epit.</span>43</span>; ὅ τι ἂν προσπέσῃ ἰχθύδιον <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span>590a27</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>186.15</span> (iii B.C.); <b class="b3">προσπεσούσης μοι τῆς . . ἐπιστολῆς</b> <b class="b2">when</b> the letter <b class="b2">came to hand</b>, PStrassb.111.2 (iii B.C.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.71</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>240.9</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of expenses, <b class="b2">to be incurred</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.7.28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>60.3</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of money, <b class="b2">to be paid in</b> to an account, ib.<span class="bibl">701.9</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.290</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> of rights and duties, etc., <b class="b2">pass to, devolve</b> or <b class="b2">fall upon</b>, ὅταν λειτουργία προσπέσῃ ἀπολύειν αὐτούς <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHib.</span>1.78.4</span> (iii B.C.); ὥστε μηδεμίαν ὑποψίαν ἐκείνῳ γε προσπεσεῖν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.340.12</span> (iii B.C.); κληρονομίας -πεσούσης μοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>340.9</span> (iii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b2">come to one's ears, be told as news</b>, εἴ τισιν ἀπιστότερος προσπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.59</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>6.614.13</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>9.9</span> (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Plb.5.101.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Per.</span> 16</span>, etc.; εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην <span class="bibl">Plb.9.6.1</span>: impers., <b class="b3">προσέπεσε</b> <b class="b2">news came</b> that... c. acc. et inf., <span class="bibl">Id.24.14.10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">31.14.8</span>; <b class="b3">προσπέπτωκεν Παῶν ἀναπλεῖν</b> Wilcken <span class="title">Chr.</span>10 (ii B.C.); προσπεσόντων τῷ βασιλεῖ περὶ τῶν γεγονότων <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ma.</span>5.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">π. δι' ἑαυτοῦ</b> or <b class="b3">αὐτόθεν</b> <b class="b2">to be</b> self-<b class="b2">evident</b>, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>2.168</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">M.</span>1.300</span>; τὰ ποτιπίπτοντα ποτὶ τὰν αἴσθησιν <span class="bibl">Archyt.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sens.</span>5</span>,<span class="bibl">41</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b2">sit</b> or <b class="b2">fit closely</b>, of a bandage, <b class="b3">προσπεπτωκός</b>, opp. <b class="b3">χαλαρόν</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Fract.</span>5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> Geom., <b class="b2">meet</b>, πόλος πρὸς ὃν αἱ γραμμαὶ προσπίπτουσιν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>376a19</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Archim.<span class="title">Spir.</span> 6</span>; of lines, <b class="b2">to be drawn to meet</b>, πρὸς κύκλον <span class="bibl">Euc.3.37</span>; <b class="b3">π. ἐπὶ . .</b><b class="b2">pass through</b> a point, <span class="bibl">Archim.<span class="title">Spir.</span>14</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">8</span> of the pulse, = [[ὑποπίπτω]], Ruf.<span class="title">Puls.</span>6.2; of the womb, <b class="b3">ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα π</b>. <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Nat.Mul.</span>44</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mul.</span> 2.125</span>,al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">fall down at</b> another's <b class="b2">feet, prostrate oneself</b>, προσπίπτων προσκυνέει τὸν ἕτερον <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.134</span>; προσπεσὼν ἔχου <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1181</span>; ἱκέτης προσπίπτω <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.6.2</span>: c. dat., π. βωμοῖσι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>904</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span> 1157</span>; τινὸς γόνασι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>1332</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Andr.</span>860</span> (lyr.), etc.; προσπεσὼν αὐτῷ . . ἱκέτευε <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ep.</span>349a</span>; θεῶν πρὸς βρέτας <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>31</span>; πρὸς γόνυ <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">HF</span>79</span>: also c. acc., π. βρέτη δαιμόνων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>94</span> (lyr.); cf. [[προσπίτνω]].</span>