συνήθεια, ἡ,
habitual intercourse, acquaintance, intimacy, αἱ πρὸς ἀλλήλους σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.1; διατριβαὶ καὶ -θειαι μετά τινων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.23; ἡ τῶν φίλων σ. [prev. work]152; σ. καὶ φιλία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 753a12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ πολιτικὴ σ. [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1181a11; τὰς τῶν φαύλων σ. ὀλίγος χρόνος διέλυσε 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.1; ὅπως ἂν αἱ σ. διαζευχθῶσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1319b26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ αὐτῷ δέ μοί εἰσι σ. [[ “PCair.Zen.” 42.2 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὢν ἡμῖν ἐν συνηθείᾳ [[ “PMich.Zen.” 82.3 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__b sexual intercourse, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.31 (variant); σ. ἔχειν μετὰ γυναικός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.310e; πρὸς γυναῖκα 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 288.23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of animals, herding together, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 575b19 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νέμεσθαι κατὰ συνηθείας in herds,[[ [prev. work] 611a7, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.31 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; so of soldiers, κατὰ συνηθείας in messes, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 35.4.14. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II habit, custom, [[ hymnus ad Mercurium 485 (_plural_), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 516a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; plural, φαῦλαι σ. bad habits, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 46; κατὰ συνήθειαν τοῦ προτέρου βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τοῖς ἤθεσι τοῖς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ συνηθείας in his own accustomed haunts, [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 865e ] Refs]; ἡ σ. τοῦ ἔργου habituation to it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 12.4; λήθην ἢ συνήθειαν τῶν ἀδικημάτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.3, compare 60.27; πολλῆς.. σ. ἡ ῥητορική 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῇ σ. τοῦ εἰδώλου by being used to it, [[ NT.1Cor.8.7 ] NT]; practice, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.42.7, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 656d: with Preps., διὰ συνήθειαν [prev. author] “Sph.” 248b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διὰ τὴν σ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 494b21; ἐκ συνηθείας “OGI” 629.12,79 (Palmyra, 2nd c.AD)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατὰ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” [same place]; παρὰ συνήθειαν [prev. author] “Lg.” 655e; ἠναγκάσμεθα ὑπὸ συνηθείας [prev. author] “Tht.” 157b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἔχειν τῇ πολιτείᾳ to be used to it, practised in it, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 39.5.2; σ. κτᾶσθαι πρὸς τὰ κοινά 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.791a. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]