Strong G4389προτρέπω

προτρέπω,
urge forwards; used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only intransitive in middle or passive, turn to flight, προτρέποντο μελαινάων ἐπὶ νηῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.700)]; of the sun, ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἂψ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν προτράπηται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.18, compare 12.381: _metaphorically_, ἄχεϊ προτραπέσθαι)] give myself up to grief, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.336.)]
II later, in active, urge on, impel, τίς σ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ τῇδε προτρέπε; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1193; π. τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.123)]; opposed to κωλύω, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113b26)]: with accusative person et infinitive, urge on, impel, persuade one to do a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.90, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 270; π. τὰ δέοντα ποιεῖν ὑμᾶς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.3, compare “BGU” 164.17 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc.)]; π. τοὺς δικαστὰς ὀργίζεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.3; ὁ καλῶς προτρέπων ἐρᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 181a)]; προτρέψαι (or -τρέψασθαι) τινὰ ὥστε πειρᾶσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.63: followed by a _preposition_, π. τινὰ εἰς or ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 275a, 307a; ἐπ᾽ ἐλευθερίαν τὰ πλήθη [prev. author] “Lg.” 699e; ἐπ᾽ ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.8, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 10, etc.; ἐπὶ τὰς ἀδικίας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.46; πρὸς τὸ παρέπεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 89a, etc.; συμβουλεύει ἢ προτρέπων ἢ ἀποτρέπων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1358b15)]:— middle, with accusative person et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 990, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 358, etc.)]; προτρέπεσθαι ἀνθρώπους ἐπ᾽ ἀρετήν, τοὺς συνόντας πρὸς ἐγκράτειαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.1, 4.5.1; νόμοι πολίτας ἐς δικαιοσύνην π. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 2.2.14; προὐτράπετο εἰς τὸ διαλέγεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 348c; πρὸς ἀρετῆς ἐπιτηδεύματα π. τοὺς πολίτας [prev. author] “Lg.” 711b)]; ὡς.. προετρέψατο ὁ Σόλων τὸν Κροῖσον εἴπας.., ἐπειρώτα.., as Solon's story led Croesus on, he asked, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31)]; προτρέψομαι I will lay an injunction on thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1446 (variant))]; prescribe, ἐν τῇ φαρμακείῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος ἀνθρώπου” 9, but compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.122, 19.133)]:—passive, to be persuaded or influenced, ὑπὸ τῶν ὀρνίθων ἀποτρέπεσθαι καὶ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.4, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 29)]: with infinitive, ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνων -τραπήσεσθαι ὅ τι ἂν κελεύωνται ποιεῖν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.87K.; ὑπὸ τῆς ἐλπίδος π. “SIG” 1073.37 (Olympia, 2nd c.AD))]; προετράπη γράψαι [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus “Vit.Arat.” p.77 Maass.)]
III promote, οὖρα, χυμόν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.32; γάλα, σπέρμα, [prev. work] 771:)] —passive, ἢν προτρέπηται ὁποῖα δεῖ if stimulated in the right way, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 51.)]
IV in middle, outstrip, outdo, πάντας ἐν τῷ πίνειν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.624c.)]
V search out, discover, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 715 (_accusative_ to Scholia; uncertain reading).)]