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πρόσκειται (proskeitai)

πρόσκειται is an Ancient Greek form of πρόσκειμαι, meaning “lie near, be attached to”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Helen 443: ἄπελθʼ· ἐμοὶ γὰρ τοῦτο πρόσκειται, ξένε,

Plato, Cratylus 393: … τι ἔκγονον, βασιλεὺς κλητέος· εἰ δὲ ἐν ἑτέραις συλλαβαῖς ἢ ἐν ἑτέραις τὸ αὐτὸ σημαίνει, οὐδὲν πρᾶγμα· οὐδʼ εἰ πρόσκειταί τι γράμμα ἢ ἀφῄρηται, οὐδὲν οὐδὲ τοῦτο, ἕως ἂν ἐγκρατὴς ᾖ ἡ οὐσία τοῦ πράγματος δηλουμένη ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι. πῶς …

All forms of πρόσκειμαι (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.