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προσκυ^ρ-έω and προσκυ^ρ-κύρω [υ_] (v. infr.), aor. προσέκυρσα,
A.reach, arrive at, c. dat., “προσέκυρσε Κυθήροις” Hes.Th.198.
b. adjoin, Herod. Med. ap. Orib.10.5.10; ἕλος παπυρικὸν ὃ προσκυρεῖ (or -κύρει） τῇ λεγομένῃ Βαθείᾳ (place-name) BGU1121.8 (i B.C.).
2. meet with, τινι Emp.2.5; ναῦς πέτρῃ π. Thgn.1361; “ἑωυτοῖσι” Hp.Praec.8: c. acc. rei, “πάντων ὅσ᾽ ἐγὼ προσέκυρσ᾽ ἤδη” S.OT1299 (anap.): reversely, δόμοισι πῆμα προσκυρεῖ betides the house, A.Ch.13.
3. belong, appertain, or be attached to, D.S.16.42, Plu.Art.21; τὰ προσκυροῦντα τούτοις Epist. ap. J.AJ13.4.9; “τὰ προσκύροντα τῷ ἱερῷ” OGI732 (Egypt, ii B.C.), cf. Sammelb.1567.7 (iii B.C.), 4208.7 (ii B.C.); “τῶν οἰκοπέδων -κυρόντων” Sardis 7(1).1 i 11 (iv/iii B.C.); προσκύρουσιν πρὸς τὴν κώμην καὶ ἄλλαι κῶμαι ib.4; “οἱ -οντες τόποι” PLond.2.401.28 (ii B.C.); “ᾗ ἔχω αὐλῇ -ούσῃ οἰκίᾳ μου” BGU275.6 (iii A.D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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