address
Νέοις τὸ σιγᾶν κρεῖττόν ἐστιν τοῦ λαλεῖν → Sermone melius est iuveni silentium → Es schweigen besser, statt zu schwätzen, junge Leut'
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. πρόσρησις, ἡ, λόγος, ὁ, P. πρόσρημα, τό, V. πρόσφθεγμα, τό, προσφώνημα, τό.
public speech: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, P. δημηγορία, ἡ.
address to troops before battle: see exhortation.
addresses, courting: P. θεραπεία, ἡ.
pay one's addresses to: Ar. and P. θεραπεύειν (acc.); see court.
verb transitive
P. and V. προσαγορεύειν, προσειπεῖν (2nd aor.), V. αὐδᾶν, προσαυδᾶν, προσφωνεῖν, προσφθέγγεσθαι, ἐννέπειν, προσεννέπειν, προσηγορεῖν.
that I might come to address the goddess Pallas in prayer: V. Παλλάδος θεᾶς ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος (Sophocles, Antigone 1184).
addressed by whom? V. τῷ προσήγορος; (Sophocles, Philoctetes 1353).
address (publicly): Ar. and P. δημηγορεῖν πρός (acc.).
of a general addressing troops: P. παρακελεύεσθαι (dat. or absol.); see exhort.
address oneself to: P. and V. τρέπεσθαι (πρός, ἐπί, εἰς, acc.), ἔχεσθαι (gen.), νοῦν προσέχειν (dat.), καθίστασθαι εἰς (acc.).
consult: P. and V. ἐπέρχεσθαι (acc.).
the servants all addressed their hands to work: V. δμῶες πρὸς ἔργον πάντες ἵεσαν χέρας (Euripides, Electra 799).
