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|txtha=2nd aorist infinitive προστῆναι; [[perfect]] participle προεστώς; [[present]] [[middle]] προισταμαι; from [[Homer]], Iliad 4,156 [[down]];<br /><b class="num">1.</b> in the transitive tenses to [[set]] or [[place]] [[before]]; to [[set]] [[over]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in the [[perfect]] pluperfect and 2nd aorist [[active]] and in the [[present]] and [[imperfect]] [[middle]] a. to be [[over]], to [[superintend]], [[preside]] [[over]] (A. V. [[rule]]) (so from [[Herodotus]] [[down]]): to be a [[protector]] or [[guardian]]; to [[give]] [[aid]] ([[Euripides]], [[Demosthenes]], [[Aeschines]], [[Polybius]]): A. V. to [[rule]]; cf. Fritzsche at the [[passage]]; Stuart, [[commentary]], excurs. xii.)).<br /><b class="num">c.</b> to [[care]] for, [[give]] [[attention]] to: [[with]] a genitive of the [[thing]], [[καλῶν]] ἔργων, Kypke and Lösner; ([[some]] (cf. R. V. marginal [[reading]]) would [[render]] these [[two]] examples [[profess]] [[honest]] occupations ([[see]] [[ἔργον]], 1); [[but]] cf. [[ἔργον]], 3, p. 248b [[middle]] and Field, Otium Norv. pars iii, at the [[passage]] cited).