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προσέχων (prosechon)

προσέχων is an Ancient Greek form of προσεχής, meaning “next to, adjoining”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of προσχώννυμι, “heap upon; deposit”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.26.5: ἐπεβίων δὲ διὰ παντὸς αὐτοῦ αἰσθανόμενός τε τῇ ἡλικίᾳ καὶ προσέχων τὴν γνώμην, ὅπως ἀκριβές τι εἴσομαι· καὶ ξυνέβη μοι φεύγειν τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ ἔτη εἴκοσι μετὰ τὴν ἐς Ἀμφίπολιν στρα …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6.17.161: … αι, ὃς καὶ διὰ τοῦτο σωτὴρ πάντων ἀνθρώπων, φησὶν ὁ ἀπόστολος, μάλιστα δὲ πιστῶν, κατὰ δὲ τὸ προσεχὲς ὑπὸ τῶν προσεχῶν ἑκάστοις κατὰ τὴν τοῦ προσεχοῦς τῷ πρώτῳ αἰτίῳ κυρίου ἐπίταξίν τε καὶ πρόσταξιν.

All forms of προσεχής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.