στοιχ-έω,
to be drawn up in a line or row, οὐδ᾽ ἐγκαταλείψω τὸν παραστάτην, ὅτῳ ἂν στοιχήσω beside whom I stand in battle,—from the oath of Athenian citizens, cited in [[ 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.1.48, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.105 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; move in line, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.34, “Eq.Mag.” 5.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be in rows, of leaves or joints, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.18.5, 3.5.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸ στοιχοῦν in sequence, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Interpretatione” 19b24. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 correspond, ὅπως ἀεὶ ἡ ἡμέρα στοιχῇ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην πόλιν [[ “OGI” 458.52 (1st c.BC). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 to be satisfactory to one, στοιχεῖ μοι πάντα τὰ προγεγραμμένα [[ “BGU” 317.14 (6th c.AD),compare “Sammelb.” 6258 (5th-6th c.AD), etc. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II with dative, fit, [καταστρωτῆρα] στοιχοῦντα τοῖς κειμένοις [[ “IG” 7.3073.153 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: metaphorically, to be in line with, walk by, agree with, submit to, τῇ τῆς συγκλήτου προθέσει [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.5.6; διὰ τῶν ἔργων στοιχεῖν αὐτοσαυτῷ “SIG” 734.6 (Delph., 1st c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τῇ πρός τινα εὐνοίᾳ [[ “BCH” 55.44 (Odessus, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ταῖς πλείοσι γνώμαις [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.65; τῷ νομίσματι 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.178 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; τοῖς προειρημένοις φιλοσόφοις[[ [prev. work] 11.59; Πνεύματι NT.Gal.5.25, cf. NT.Phil.3.16; τοῖς ἴχνεσι τῆς πίστεως NT.Rom.4.12 ] NT]; στοίχεις (Aeolic dialect present participle) τοῖς προϋπαργμένοισι [[ “IGRom.” 4.1302 (Cyme, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἠθέλησεν στοιχοῦσαν τοῖς προπεπραγμένοις παρέχεσθαι τοῖς πολίταις τὴν αὑτοῦ διάληψιν [[ “OGI” 764.45 (Pergam., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; μιᾷ σ. to be contented with one wife, [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 773; στοιχῶν πᾶσιν ὑπέγραψα “CPR” 30 ii 41 (6th c.AD): _absolutely_, στοιχεῖν βουλόμενος καὶ τοῖς ἐκείνων ἴχνεσιν ἐπιβαίνειν “SIG” 708.5 (Istropolis, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; στοιχεῖς τὸν νόμον φυλάσσων observest it regularly, [[ NT.Acts.21.24. ] NT]