προστῆναι (prostenai)

προστῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of προίστημι, meaning “set before, stand in front”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.3.11: … βωρῖνος ἐν Παντοδαπῇ ἱστορίᾳ, τὴν Ὁμήρου ποίησιν ἀποφήνασθαι εἶναι περὶ ἀρετῆς καὶ δικαιοσύνης· ἐπὶ πλεῖον δὲ προστῆναι τοῦ λόγου Μητρόδωρον τὸν Λαμψακηνόν, γνώριμον ὄντα αὐτοῦ, ὃν καὶ πρῶτον σπουδάσαι τοῦ ποιητοῦ περὶ τὴν φυσικὴ …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 39.357: … ς, καὶ μὴ μνησθῇς ὅσα σοι ἥμαρτον ἐν γνώσει τε καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ. φύλαξον δὲ καὶ τὸν πιστόν σου δοῦλον τοῦτον, οὗπερ προστῆναί με τὸν ἀχρεῖόν σου ἠξίωσας οἰκέτην·

All forms of προίστημι (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.