προσιέναι (prosienai)

προσιέναι is an Ancient Greek form of πρόσειμι, meaning “be near; approach”.

It can also be a form of προσίημι, “admit, let come to”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 111 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.39.3: οὓς χρῆν, ὅτε ἀσφαλέστατοι ἦσαν, τότε προσιέναι, καὶ μὴ ἐν ᾧ ἡμεῖς μὲν ἠδικήμεθα, οὗτοι δὲ κινδυνεύουσι, μηδ’ ἐν ᾧ ὑμεῖς τῆς τε δυνάμεως αὐτῶν τότε οὐ μεταλα …

Hyperides, Against Demosthenes frag_7: οὐ μέντοι ἡμᾶς ὁ δῆμος ἐν τῷ μετὰ ταῦτα χρόνῳ οὐκ εἴα προςιέναι αὑτῷ οὐδὲ διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ συμβούλοις ἐχρῆτο καὶ ςυνηγόροις τοῦ δὲ ἐπιόντοςἐπὶ τὴν διοίκησιν τῶν αὑτοῦ ἅ …

All forms of πρόσειμι (conjugation 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.