σύγ-κρᾱσις, εως,
Ionic dialect σύγ-κρησις, ἡ, mixing together, commixture, blending, tempering, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 24, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 21.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 64d, etc.; ἡ σ. τῶν χρωμάτων [prev. author] “Plt.” 277c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶν στοιχείων (heat and cold) [[ 3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus cited in “Placita Philosophorum” 5.21.2] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἥ τε ἐς τοὺς ὀλίγους καὶ τοὺς πολλοὺς ξ. blending of oligarchy with democracy, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ.. ὑγρότης μὴ φέρουσα τὴν πρὸς τὸ φῶς σ. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aratus” 10 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of friendship, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 31, “BCH” 49.483 (Delph.) ] Refs]; of bodily constitution or temperament, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 8, 10. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__b Astrology texts, combination of influence of heavenly bodies, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.49.3, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 83, 121, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.400. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__c ἡ σ. τοῦ ἔτους the temperature or climate, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1 “Praef.” 7. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II mixture, compound, οὐ θνητὸς οὐδ᾽ ἀθάνατος, ἀλλ᾽ ἔχων τινὰ σ. but compounded so to say of both, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 240.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὸν καιρὸν.. τῆς σ., i.e. the moment when the dish is neither too hot nor too cold, [[ [prev. author] 173.10 ] Refs]; τὴν τοῦ βίου σ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 685. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]