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συνάγω [ᾰ],
imperfect συνῆγον, Doric dialect -ᾶγον[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 756 (Lyric poetry), probably in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 290 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect σύνᾰγον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.448: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future συνάξω: aorist 1 συνῆξα, Doric dialect -ᾶξα[[ “GDI” 1772,1791 (Delph., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; infinitive συνάξαι variant in [[ NT.Luke.3.17 ] NT]; participle συνάξας falsa lectio for{συννάξας} in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.60: but the regular ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist is συνήγαγον: Attic dialect perfect συνῆχα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.8; συναγήοχα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Oeconomica” 1346a28 (variant{-γιοχ-, -γιωχ-, γειοχ-}), 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.68, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 35.254, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect συναγάγοχα [[ “Test.Epict.” 3.12: ] Refs]perfect passive συνῆγμαι, Doric dialect -ᾶγμαι[[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 101b ] Refs 5th c.BC+].--Old Attic dialect ξυνάγω, which [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] also uses for the sake of meter:—bring together, gather together:
__I of persons, animals, etc., ἡ δὲ ξυνάγουσα γεραιὰς νηόν.. to the temple, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.87, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.111, 3.150, etc.; ἐς ἕνα Χῶρον σ. μυριάδα ἀνθρώπων [prev. author] 7.60; ἔνθα ποτ᾽ Ὀρφεὺς σύναγεν δένδρεα μούσαις, σύναγεν θῆρας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 563 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποίμνας Ὀλύμπου σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 522 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἕλληνας εἰς ἓν καὶ Φρύγας σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1640, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 585 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἐς ὀλίγον crowd them into a narrow compass, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.84; σ. εἰς ταὐτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 256c, compare “Tht.” 194b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἕν, εἰς μίαν ἀρχήν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1280b13, 1299b13; much like{συνοικίζω}, [prev. work] 1285b7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I.2 bring together for deliberation or festivity, βουλήν [[ Batrachomyomachia 134; δικαστήριον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.85; τοὺς στρατηγούς [prev. author] 8.59; ἐκκλησίαν τινὸς ἕνεκα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔς τι, περί τινος, [[ [prev. author] 1.120, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.27; οἱ νόμοι σ. ὑμᾶς, ἵνα.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.1; τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τὸν δῆμον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 43.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. πανηγύρεις, ἑταιρείας, συσσίτια, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.1,79, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 365d, “Lg.” 625e, etc.; σ. ἔρανον Μηνὶ Τυράννῳ “IG” 3.74.21, compare “GDI” 1772, 1791 (Delph., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, πανήγυρις.. συναγομένη [[ “SIG” 888.129 (Scaptopara, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: absolutely, hold a club dinner or meeting, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.18, and so perhaps “OGI” 130.5 (Egypt, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. ἀπὸ συμβολῶν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 43.28; ἔλεγον συνάγειν τὸ μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων πίνειν 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.365c, compare 4th c.BC(?): Sophilus Comicus 4.2, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 158, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νυνὶ.. συνάγουσι they are at dinner, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 195. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.3 in hostile sense, ξ. Ἄρηα, ἔριδα Ἄρηος, ὑσμίνην, join battle, begin the battle-strife, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.381, 5.861, 14.448, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πόλεμον σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.84. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.3.b match, pit two warriors one against the other, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 508: hence _intransitive_, ἐς μέσσον σ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. engage in fight, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.82; σ. τινί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.18.4; εἰς Χεῖρας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 9. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__I.3.c collect or levy soldiers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.5, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; collect slaves for work, [[ “PMich.Zen.” 62.15 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__I.4 bring together, join in one, unite, ἄμφω ἐς φιλότητα [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 507; παράνοια σ. νυμφίους φρενώλεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 756 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ κακὸν σέ τε κἀμὲ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 644 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 991 (Lyric poetry); ἀνθρώπους εἰς κηδείαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γυναῖκα καὶ ἄνδρα, of Isis, [[ “IG” 12(5).14.20 (Ios, 3rd c.AD): hence γάμους σ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]. contract marriages, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.64. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.5 bring together, make friends of, reconcile, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1000b11, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 58.42, 59.45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; bring persons together in works of fiction, Κρέοντα καὶ Τειρεσίαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 311b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.6 σ. ἑαυτόν collect oneself, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 20. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__I.7 lead with one, receive, σ. εἰς τὸν οἶκον [[ LXX.2Ki.11.27, cf. LXX.Judg.19.15; ξένος ἤμην καὶ συνηγάγετέ με ] LXX]gave hospitality to.., [[NT.Matt.25.35 ] NT]:—passive, [[ NT.Act.11.26. ] NT]
__II of things, σύναγεν νεφέλας [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.291, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 42; ἵνα οἱ σὺν φόρτον ἄγοιμι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.296; κήρυκες ὅρκια πιστὰ θεῶν σύναγον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.269; τὰ Χρήματα ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.2.8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ ἔλαιον ἐν ἀγγείοις interpolated in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.119; τὰς εἰσφοράς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1314b15, compare “PHib.” 1.157 (3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 315.1 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καρπόν [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.2.5; κόγχον καὶ κύαμον 4th c.BC: Crates Thebanus Poeta Philosophus 7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τρυγᾶν καὶ σ. [[ “PRev.Laws” 24.14 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὴν μήκωνα σ. [[ “Sammelb.” 4305 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; σ. εἰς μίαν γωνίαν τὸ ἀποκτένισμα τοῦ στιππύου [[ “PCair.Zen.” 176.41 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; συναγαγεῖν καὶ συναθροῖσαι τὸ θερμόν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 17; εἰς ἀποθήκας NT.Matt.6.26; κοινὸν σ. τὸν βίον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 311c; σ. ἐκ δικαίων τὸν βίον 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 196 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; of an artist, σ. τὰ κάλλιστα ἐκ πολλῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.10.2, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 488a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b of a historical writer, σ. τὰς πράξεις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.252, 15.45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συνηγμένος concise in speech, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 4.33 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; of an anthologist, ὅλας ῥήσεις εἰς ταὐτὸν σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 811a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. εἰς ταὐτὸν τὰ κάλλιστα τοῖς αἰσχίστοις jumble together, identify, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.145, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 251d; Σειληνὸν καὶ Μαρσύαν.. εἰς ἕν 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 10.3.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 draw together, so as to make the extremities meet, τὰ κέρεα (of an army) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.113 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Αἴας δὲ.. δεξιὸν κέρας πρὸς τὸ λαιὸν (uncertain reading) ξυνᾶγε [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 290 (Lyric poetry); σ. ἐς τετράγωνον τάξιν τοὺς ὁπλίτας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.125, compare 1.63, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τὰ τέρματα, of two rivers which gradually approach one another, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἑαυτόν, of a snake, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 594a19 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. τοὺς πόρους, of a styptic, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Odoribus” 36 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. τὰν ἁφάν, τὰν γεῦσιν, [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 101c; συναγμένα [φωνά] [prev. work] 101b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2.b draw together, narrow, contract, [τὴν διώρυχα] [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρῴρην σ. bring it to a point, [[ [prev. author] 1.194 ] Refs]; τὸν.. Χρόνον ὡς εἰς μικρότατον σ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 36; τὴν πόλιν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.93.5, etc.; ἐκ μεγάλας δαπάνας εἰς μικρόν “IG” 12(2).645 a. 16 (Nesos, 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, συνάγεται καὶ διοίγεται ὁ φάρυγξ [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 664b25; εἰς ὀξὺ συνῆχθαι [prev. author] “HA” 496a19; εἰς μικρόν [prev. author] “Mete.” 354a7, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus cited in 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 52 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰς στενόν Didym. cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.477f; ποτήριον συνηγμένον εἰς μέσον 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 3 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; συνῆκται ἡ κοιλία is pinched in, drawn in, [[ 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 6.3; ἐπὶ στενὸν συνάγεται τὸ στόμιον 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.9. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2.c σ. τὰς ὀφρῦς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1121, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 582 (troch.), 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 218.2; ἐπισκύνιον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 823 (Lyric poetry); τὰ ὄμματα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 958a21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τὰ βλέφαρα close the eyelids,[[ [prev. work] 38, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).62] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but σ. τὰ ὦτα prick the ears, of dogs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1348; τὰ σκέλη πρὸς ἄλληλα 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.101, compare 2.61 (_passive_), Diocl.fragment 141. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2.d metaphorically, σ. τινὰς ἐς κίνδυνον ἔσχατον [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Ἀννιβαϊκή” 60 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; συνάγεσθαι to be straitened, afflicted, λιμῷ, σιτοδείᾳ, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.18.7, 10 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; συνάγεσθαι τοῖς Χαρακτῆρσι to become pinched in its features, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.108 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but πεφυκότος τοῦ θερμοῦ συνάγειν καὶ τονοῦν τὴν γαστέρα pull the stomach together, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.195; τὰ στύφοντα ἐδέσματα σ. καὶ σφίγγει τὰ σώματα [prev. work]462, compare 6.90, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 conclude from premisses, infer, prove, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1357a8, 1395b25, “Metaphorical” 1042a3, “Pol.” 1299b12, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 12, +others; σ. ὅτι.. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1377b6, compare 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Conjunctionibus;” 249.7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with infinitive, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 16: with _genitive_ _absolutely_, σ. ὥς τινος γενομένου] Refs 2nd c.AD+] form a conclusion of his having been.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1274a25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; συνάγοντες λόγοι cogent arguments, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.77, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.7.12 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: also, sum up numbers, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.6, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 9.10, 3rd c.AD: Diophantus Mathematicus 3.6, +others] Refs 1st c.BC+]; also, obtain them by multiplication, ὁ συνηγμένος [ἀριθμὸς] ἐκ τῶν κβ καὶ πθ the product.. , [[ 3rd c.BC: Aristarchus Samius Astronomus 13, compare 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 22.7, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “K.” 1 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of division, give a quotient, [[ 3rd c.AD: Diophantus Mathematicus 2.9 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; of an integer, yield a fraction [[(9 = 72 / 8), [prev. work] 12 ] Refs]; of any calculation, yield a result, [[ [prev. author] 1.25, +others (_passive_). ] Refs]
__II.4 passive, συνάγεται τᾷ περιφορᾷ is carried along with it, [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 98e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5 bring about, τὸ τέλος τῆς νίκης [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.101; also σ. τι εἰς τέλος [prev. work] 5.145. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
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