συγ-κάμπτω,
bend, τὸ σκέλος [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 14, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 60b; συγκάμψας τὰν χῆρα καθ᾽ ἕνα ἐκτείνειν τῶν δακτύλων “IG” 42(1).121.28 (Epid., 4th c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of legs, arms, spine, etc., [[ Diocl.fragment 141; τὸν νῶτόν τινων LXX.Psa.68(69).24 ] LXX]: intransitive, bend down,[[LXX.4Ki.4.35:— ] LXX]passive, opposed to ἐκτείνεσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 12.5; συγκεκαμμένῳ τῷ σκέλει, of a person mounting a horse, [prev. work] 7.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συγκεκαμμένος τοῖς δακτύλοις with the fingers doubled up. [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.29 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; especially of the action of sitting down, συγκαμφθεὶς κάθημαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 98d, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 9, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 885b34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the foetus in the womb, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 586b1, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.60 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the chest in phthisis, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον” 14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of animals lying down with their knees bent under them, σ. ἡ βοῦς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 575a14 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—in passive also, bend together with, ἐπιφανείας -εσθαι τοῖς σώμασιν [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.63c. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]