σύστημ-α, ατος, τό,
whole compounded of several parts or members, system, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 991e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 740a20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the composite whole of soul and body, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.21U.; τὸ ὅλον σ. τοῦ σώματος 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 10.6. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b in literary sense, composition, ἐποποιικὸν σ. [πραγμάτων] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456a11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λυρικὰ σ. [[ “SIG” 660.3 (Delph., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τέχνη ἐστὶ σ. ἐκ καταλήψεων συγγεγυμνασμένων [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.21, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.20.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the syllogism, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.173. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__c ={σύστασις} [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.2, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 758b3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 organized government, constitution, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 686b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1168b32; σ. δημοκρατίας 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.38.6, compare 6.10.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἐκ θεῶν καὶ σοφῶν σ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.241 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; confederacy, σ. τῶν Ἀχαιῶν [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.41.15, compare 9.28.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὸ Ἀμφικτιονικὸν σ. [[ “SIG” 761 A 16 (Delph., 1st c.BC), “Delph.” 3(1).480.16] Refs 1st c.BC+]; band of partisans, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 20.9.4 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; σ. τοῦ γένους ἡμῶν, of a Jewish community, [[ [prev. author] “Ap.” 1.7 ] Refs]:—it seems to have meant also a company or guild, [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2508 (Cos, _Doric dialect_ σύστα-μα), 2562 (from Hierapytna), 2699 (from Mylasa)] Refs]; or a committee, τῆς γερουσίας [[[prev. work]2930 (from Tralles). ] Refs]