συμπλέκ-ω, 2
aorist passive συνεπλάκην [ᾰ] and συνεπλέκην (see. below 11.1 and 2):— twine or plait together, συνδεῖν καὶ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309b; στέφανον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σὺν δ᾽ ἀναμὶξ πλέξας ἶριν having twined the iris therewith, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 4.1.9 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus); ἄτριον κερκίδι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.34 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὼ Χεῖρε ἐς τοὐπίσω ξυμπλέκοντες joining their hands behind them, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τινὶ τὰς Χεῖρας join hands, become intimate with one, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.45.2, compare 47.6; so σ. σπέρμα καὶ γάμους τέκνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 326.5: _absolutely_, πλάταισιν ἐσχάταισι σ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. perhaps binding the whole together, [[ [prev. author] “IA” 292 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]:—passive, to be twined together, plaited, ἐκ τῶν θαλλῶν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.18; ἡ ψυχὴ διὰ τὸ συμπεπλέχθαι πρὸς τὸ σῶμα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 406b28, compare “Placita Philosophorum” 1.7.31; πρὸς ἄλληλα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 80c; λύγοισι σῶμα συμπεπλεγμένοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 225 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν συμπλᾰκῇ [τὰ στελέχη] when they are twisted together, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.5.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἴχνη συμπεπλεγμένα tracks entangled, crossing in different directions, opposed to ὀρθά, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 combine notions logically under one term, σ. εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ κίνησιν καὶ ἀριθμόν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 409b11, compare “EN” 1119b30 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; join words so as to form a proposition, σ. τὰ ῥήματα τοῖς ὀνόμασι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 262d, compare “Tht.” 202b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἔκ τινος [[ [prev. author] “R.” 533c ] Refs]; of words, opposed to ἁπλῶς λέγεσθαι (to be used singly), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 195b15, compare “Metaphorical” 1014a13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατηγορίαι συμπεπλεγμέναι complex, opposed to ἁπλαῖ, [[ [prev. author] “APr.” 49a8, compare “Int.” 16a23, “PA” 643b30 ] Refs]; περὶ τοῦ -πεπλεγμένου on the compound sentence, title of work by Chrysipp., [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.68. ] Refs]