συνοδ-ία, ἡ,
journey in company, companionship on a journey, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 10.7.2, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 6.12.1, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.48b, “Galb.” 20, 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 6.2; ἀνδρὸς πονηροῦ φεῦγε συνοδίαν ἀεί 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 24. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II in concrete sense, party of travellers, caravan, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 4.6.6, 11.14.4, NT.Luke.2.44, “OGI” 633.2 (Palmyra, 2nd c.AD); ἀνακομίσαι συνοδίας [prev. work]646.6 ([prev. passage], 3rd c.AD)] NT+1st c.BC+]; σ. πρεσβευτοῦ ἢ ἀνθυπάτου [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 4.1.91. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III family, [[ LXX.Neh.7.5 (_plural_), +others:—in 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] LXX] also συνοδεία. -ιάρχης, ου, ὁ, leader of a caravan, [[ “OGI” 632.2, 633.5 (Palmyra, 2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: hence συνοδ-ιαρχία, ἡ, office of συνοδιάρχης, [[ “Supp.epigram” 7.139.6 ([prev. passage], 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]