προστάττειν (prostattein)

προστάττειν is an Ancient Greek form of προστάσσω, meaning “order, assign”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcellus 24.7: … ίκερε Ῥωμαῖοι καλοῦσιν ἔνιοι δὲ τὸν δικτάτορα τῷ μὴ προτιθέναι ψῆφον ἢ χειροτονίαν, ἀλλʼ ἀφʼ αὑτοῦ τὰ δόξαντα προστάττειν καὶ λέγειν οὕτως ὠνομάσθαι καὶ γὰρ τὰ διαγράμματα τῶν ἀρχόντων Ἕλληνες μὲν διατάγματα, Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ ἔδικτα προσ …

All forms of προστάσσω (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.