προςφυής

A. firmly attached by growth, Thphr. CP 1.6.3; λοβοὶ ὤτων προσφυεῖς PPetr. 3p.25; ὄνυχες π. τῇ σαρκί Adam. 2.4; opp. προσαρτής, χοιράς Antyll. ap.Orib. 45.2.2.

2. fixed or attached to, θρῆνυν . . προσφυέ’ ἐξ αὐτῆς [τῆς κλισίης] Od. 19.58; τοῖς ὀστέοις Diog.Oen. 39: metaph., inseparable from, Epicur. Fr. 200: Comp., more akin to, Pl. Phlb. 64c, 67a. Adv. ‐ῶς, of kissing, Luc. DMeretr. 3.2.

3. π. τινί attached or devoted to, ἐδωδαῖς καὶ . . ἡδοναῖς Pl. R. 519b.

II. naturally belonging to, suitable or fitted for a thing, τῶν δικαίων π. καὶ συγγενεῖς Id. Ep. 344a; τοῖς πράγμασι π. λέξις D.H. Th. 5; π. τῷ θεῷ ἄγαλμα Hierocl. in CA 1p.421M.: c. inf., οἰκτίσασθαι ‐έστατος most adapted to move pity, Longin. 34.2. Adv. ‐ῶς, Ion. ‐έως, προσφυέως λέγειν speak suitably, ably, Hdt. 1.27, cf. Ph. 2.421, al.