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συντίθημι,
used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in ] Refs 8th c.BC+]middle, see below:—passive (see. below), but σύγκειμαι is more frequently as passive:— place or put together, τὴν οὐρὴν καὶ τὸν σπλῆνα.. συνθεὶς ὁμοῦ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.47, compare 4.67; ὅπλα ἐν τῷ ναῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.20; ἅπαντα εἰς ἕν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1016; ἐν ὀλίγῳ πάντα [prev. author] “Supp.” 1126 (Lyric poetry); ὁ πρῶτος συνθεὶς εἰς ταὐτὸν τὰ δύο ταῦτα βιβλίδια 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.109 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἱμάτια, opposed to ἀνασείειν, fold them together, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 10.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. σκέλη, opposed to ἐκτείνειν, [[ [prev. author] “Cyn.” 5.10 ] Refs]; opposed to διαιρεῖσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 252b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἄρθρα στόματος close the lips, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 625 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς τὸ οὖλον (αυλον codex) σ. τὴν κόμην, = calamistrat, [[ “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”:] Refs] —passive, τὸ συντίθεσθαι καθ᾽ ὁντινοῦν τρόπον ῥῖγος οὐκ ἀγαθόν ἐστι any sort of combination of shivering (with other symptoms), [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.746. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 technical uses,
__2.a in Mathematics texts, add together, of numbers, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.95 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τό τε ἀρχαῖον καὶ τὸ ἔργον principal and interest, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.17, compare 29.30 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: Geometry texts, of lines and figures, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Spir.Praef.”, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 70.4. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2.b in Mathematics texts also, of the transformation of a ratio componendo, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1131b8 (_passive_), 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 5.18, 24 (_passive_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2.c Logic, combine the terms of a proposition, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1012a4, 1024b19 (_passive_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also, use the fallacy of composition [[compare (σύνθεσις 1.2e), [prev. author] “Rh.” 1401a24. ] Refs]
__2.d Rhet., accumulate, joined with ἐποικοδομεῖν (to form a climax), [[[prev. work] 1365a16. ] Refs]
__2.e σ. λόγον make up an account, [[ “PHib.” 1.48.15 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II put together constructively, so as to make a whole, πεντηκοντέρους καὶ τριήρεας (as a bridge) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λίθους, of builders, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.4, “IG” 42(1).103.59 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλίνθους, ξύλα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.1.7, etc.; τὰ ὄστρακα “IG” 42(1).121.82 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ κομισθέντα [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.64; ἐκ τούτων τὰ μέγιστα.. συνθεὶς τοῦτον.. τὸν λόγον ποιήσομαι 5th c.BC: Hippias Eleus Historicus et Sophista 6 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; συλλαβάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 424e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 construct, frame, τὸ θνητὸν γένος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ συνθείς the creator, [[[prev. work] 33d ] Refs]:—passive, to be constructed, of the material universe, opposed to διαλύεσθαι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 304b30. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2.b σ. τι ἀπό τινος compose or make one thing of or from another, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.23; τὸ ἐκ τῶν νεῶν καὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ πλῆθος συντιθέμενον [prev. author] 7.184; ἐξ ὧν [συλλαβῶν] τὰ ὀνόματα συντίθενται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 425a, compare 434a; συνθεὶς πρᾶγμα πράξει δι᾽ ὀνόματος καὶ ῥήματος [prev. author] “Sph.” 262e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἴδωλον οὐρανοῦ ξυνθεῖσ᾽ ἄπο (Reiske for ὕπο) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 34: _metaphorically_, συντιθεὶς γέλων πολύν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 303 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δυοῖν ἅμιλλαν ξ. strive for two things at once, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 95. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 construct or frame a story, συνθέντες λόγον [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 297, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1052 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 260b; οἱ τὰς τέχνας τῶν λόγων συντιθέντες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1354a12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; narrate in writing, τὰ Ἑλληνικά [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.97, compare 21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compose, σ. μύθους, ποίησιν, μελῳδίαν, ὄρχησιν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 377d, “Phdr.” 278c, “Lg.” 812d, 816c; αἴνιγμα [prev. author] “Ap.” 27a; ὁ τὴν ἐνθάδε συνθεὶς ἀνατομήν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.147:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, perfect συντέθειται[[ [prev. work]797] Refs]; περὶ ὀλίγας οἰκίας αἱ.. τραγῳδίαι συντίθενται [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1453a19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.4 in Mathematics texts, of the synthesis of a geometrical problem, opposed to ἀναλύω, [[ [prev. author] “SE” 175a28, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 648.13 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; συντεθήσεται τὸ πρόβλημα οὕτως the synthesis of the problem will proceed thus, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.1, compare 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus Perg. “Con.” 1 “Praef.”, 2.44, +others ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.5 frame, devise, contrive, ὁ συνθεὶς τάδε the framer of this plot, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 401, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.68; ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς σ. ταῦτα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.25; σ. λόγους ψευδεῖς [prev. author] 6.9; ψευδεῖς αἰτίας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.28; τὴν κατηγορίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.6, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rarely in good sense, εὖ πρᾶγμα συντεθὲν ὄψεσθε [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.144. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.6 put together, take in, comprehend, παιδὸς μόρον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 65 (Lyric poetry); ὄμνυ.. θεῶν συντιθεὶς ἅπαν γένος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 747; πάσας συντιθεὶς ψέγει γυναῖκας [prev. author] “fragment” 657, compare “Hec.” 1184: ἐν βραχεῖ ξυνθεὶς λέγω] Refs 5th c.BC+] putting things shortly together, speaking briefly, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 673. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III commit to a person's care, deliver to him for his own use or that of others, [[ “PMich.Zen.” 2.3, 14 (3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 4.23, 6.11, 64, 299.9, +others (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; γνώριζε οὐχ ὑπάρχον παρ᾽ ἡμῖν ἀργύριον τοσοῦτο ὥστε ἱκανὸν συνθεῖναι Πυρρίχῳ [[ “PMich.Zen.” 28.18, compare 32.7, “PSI” 4.392.7, 5.524.3, 6.613.8, 7.862.1, “PLille” 15.3 (all 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τινὶ ὀστᾶ, ἐπιστολάς, πλῆθος χρυσίου, etc., [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.10.4, 8.17.4, 15.25.16, compare 27.7.1, 28.22.3, “IG” 12(5).590.12 (Ceos, 2nd c.BC), 11(4).1056.4 (Delos, 2nd c.BC,compare “Jahresh.” 24.171), “OGI” 345.11 (Delph., 1st c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__III.2 αὐτοὶ δ᾽ ἔνοχοι εἴημεν τῷ ὅρκῳ ὁπηνίκ᾽ ἂν εὖ συνθῶμεν perhaps as soon as we have duly delivered (or executed) this declaration, [[ “BGU” 1738.32 (1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; συνθεὶς τούτους μου τοὺς λιβέλλους ἐπιδίδωμι τῇ σῇ λαμπρότητι [[ “PLond.” 3.1000.7 (6th c.AD). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__IV collect, conclude, infer, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.17.14, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Indica” 34. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B middle συντίθεμαι, used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 2 and in signification [[ 1: ] Refs]
__B.I put together for oneself, i.e. observe, give heed to, σύνθετο θυμῷ βουλήν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.44; φρεσὶ σύνθετο θέσπιν ἀοιδήν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.328; ἐμεῖο δὲ σύνθεο μῦθον 17.153; συνθέμενος ῥῆμα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.277 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; and, simply, perceive, hear, κλαιούσης ὄπα σύνθετο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.92: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus mostly _absolutely_, σὺ δὲ σύνθεο] Refs 8th c.BC+] do thou take heed, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.76, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.318, etc.; σὺ δὲ σύνθεο θυμῷ [prev. work] 27. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.I.2 set in order organize, δύναμιν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.20; τὰ τῆς πόλεως [prev. work] 6.1.17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II agree on, conclude (compare συνθήκη), ἄνδρεσσι κακοῖς συνθέμενοι φιλίην [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 306 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; συντίθεσθαι συμμαχίην, ὁμαιχμίην τισί, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.181, 8.140 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].á; τὰς ξυνθήκας ἂς ξυνέθεντο [[ “IG” 12.117.4, compare 116.27, +others; εἰρήνην 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.109 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ναῦλον agree upon the fare, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.1.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταῦτα συνθέμενοι having agreed on these points, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.114, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 178, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 31; ξυνέθεσθε κοινῇ τάδε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 807, compare 808; so τάπερ τῷ Δαρείῳ συνεθήκατο ] Refs 5th c.BC+]with [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.157; σ. Ἴωσι ξεινίην [prev. author] 1.27; μισθόν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520c; σ. τι πρός τινα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.145, etc.:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, τοῦ συντεθέντος χρόνου agreed upon, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 with infinitive, covenant, agree to do, συνέθευ παρέχειν φωνάν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.41 (uncertain reading); σ. ἀλλήλοις μήτ᾽ ἀδικεῖν μήτ᾽ ἀδικεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 359a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.18, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1257a35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive future, ξυνέθεντο ἥξειν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τινί followed by infinitive future, συνθέμενοι ἡμῖν.. ἀντιώσεσθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.7.β,compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.42: an ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive must be supplied in the phrases, κατὰ (i.e. καθ᾽ ἃ) συνεθήκαντο, καθ᾽ ὅτι ἂν συνθῶνται, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.86, Foed. cited in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.18: also σ. ὡς.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.84; ὡς δεῖ ἕκαστα γίγνεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 absolutely, make a covenant, ἔβαν συνθέμενος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.75 (_construction_ uncertain in 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 5.11): with _dative_, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.115, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.7, “POxy.” 1668.12 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; αὐτὸς σαυτῷ συνέθου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 435a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συνθέσθαι πρός τινα come to terms with him, Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.187, “POxy.” 908.18 (2nd-3rd c.AD)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; περί τινος πρὸς ἀλλήλους [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.98 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; also, bet, wager, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.17.2, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 288; πρός τινας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.II.4 vote with, support, τούτοις [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 68, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 1.14, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 18, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.15.2; τοῖς ἀπὸ Ἡροφίλου 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.53 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; assent to, πᾶσι τοῖς προκειμένοις [[ “PFay.” 34.20 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἵνα μὴ δόξω συνθέσθαι τῇ τοῦ πραγματικοῦ ἀγνοίᾳ [[ “POxy.” 78.23 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__B.II.5 conclude, infer [[compare (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV), “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.63, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 2, +others:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, τὰ ὕστερον -τεθησόμενα[[ [prev. work] 28. ] Refs]
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