προΐσχεσθαι
From LSJ
μηδὲν κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλὰ καταπάττειν χύδην → not to sell by the cupful, but to dole out indiscriminately | not to sell by retail but wholesale
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also: προΐσχω) hold in front of one, urge as a pretext, hold out as an excuse, urge in excuse, hold out as a pretext
Lexicon Thucydideum
praetendere, proferre, to hold forth, put forward, 1.26.3,
porrigere, to hold out, extend, 3.58.3, 3.66.2. 3.67.5.
proponere, to propose, 4.87.2, [praeterea vulgo moreover in the common texts 3.68.1, ubi nunc where now προείχοντο.]
