συγκαθ-ίζω,
make to sit together or in a body, τὰ συνέδρια [[ “Hellenica Oxyrhynchia” 11.4; τὸν λαόν LXX.Exo.18.13 ] LXX]:—middle or passive, sit in conclave, meet for deliberation, σ. τὸ δικαστήριον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.35, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 23 (variant{-καθεζ-}). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II intransitive in active, sit together, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 11.216. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II.2 settle down in a boiling pot, [[ “PHolm.” 19.8. ] Refs]
__III sit or settle down, of quadrupeds that lie down by doubling their legs under them, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 498a9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. ἐπὶ τὰ ὄπισθεν[[ [prev. work] 578a21, cf. LXX.Num.22.27 ] LXX]; σῶμα συγκεκαθικός a bent, stooping figure, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 807b5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of men, crouch down, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aratus” 21 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of women, Thessalus in [[ “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(3).147] Refs]; also τὰ νέφη εἰς τὰ κοῖλα σ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 3. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]