To attend to with care. "[...] in order that the enemy might apply their mind to this."[1]
And elsewhere: "he was not altogether applying [sc. his mind] to his books".[2]
*prose/xoien: e)pimelw=s threi=n. o(/pws oi( pole/mioi tau/th| prose/xoien to\n nou=n. kai\ au)=qis: ou)de\ pa/nu ti prosei=xe toi=s bibli/ois.
For the idiom see generally LSJ s.v.
prose/xw, 3 (with
to\n nou=n) and 4 (without).
[1] A light abridgement -- the original has 'to this road' -- of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 4.2.2 (web address 1). The quotation has the optative, like the headword, while the glossing phrase as transmitted uses a present infinitive. The
editio princeps of
Demetrius Chalcocondyles emended the gloss to
threi=en; Aemilius Portus preferred
throi=en.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 81 Zintzen (37 Asmus).
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