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συνάπτω,
__A join together,
__A.I in physical sense, Χειρὶ Χεῖρα, of dancers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 955 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξ. καὶ ξυνωρίζου Χέρα, in sign of friendship. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 198, compare “IA” 832, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 698d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰδού, ξύναψον (i.e. τὴν Χεῖρα) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but σ. Χεῖρέ τινος ἐν βρόχοις bind them fast, [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 615 (troch.), compare 546 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ξ. πόδα, σ. ἴχνος τινί, meet him, [[ [prev. author] “Ion” 538 (troch.), 663; πόδα ἐς ταὐτὸν ὁδοῦ [prev. author] “Ph.” 37 ] Refs]; δρόμῳ σ. meet in full career, [[[prev. work] 1101 ] Refs]; ξ. κῶλον τάφῳ approach the grave, [[ [prev. author] “Hel.” 544; φόνος ξ. τινὰ γᾷ [prev. author] “Ph.” 673 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ξ. βλέφαρα κόραις close the eyes, [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 747 ] Refs]; στόμα σ. kiss one, [[ [prev. author] “IT” 375 ] Refs]; κακὰ κακοῖς σ. link misery with misery, [[ [prev. author] “HF” 1213 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; κακὰ ξ... τινί link him with misery, [[ [prev. author] “Med.” 1232 ] Refs]; proverbial, σ. λίνον λίνῳ join thread to thread, i.e. compare things of the same sort, [[ 5th c.BC: Strattis Comicus 38, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 298c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 207a17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], compare [[ Scholia Pl.[same place]; also δύ᾽ ἐξ ἑνὸς κακὼ σ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 488, compare “Hipp.” 515 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κοινὴν ξ. δαῖτα παιδί share with him a common meal, [[ [prev. author] “Ion” 807 (troch.). ] Refs]
__A.I.2 metaphorically of combination in thought, σ. αὐτὰ εἰς ἓν τρία ὄντα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 588d; σ. ἐν τοῖς λόγοις [prev. author] “Sph.” 252c; ἔχουσί τι κοινὸν [αἱ ἀρχαὶ] τὸ συνάπτον αὐτάς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 17; εἴ τι σ. ἢ ἀφαιρεῖ ἡ διάνοια [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1027b32 (διαιρεῖ 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀδύνατα σ. [[ [prev. author] “Po.” 1458a27, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Sto.Herc.” 339.13; σ. τὸ γίγνεσθαί θ᾽ ἅμα καὶ τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦ βίου 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 149.18 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; σ. μηχανήν frame a plan, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1609, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1034 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ὄναρ εἴς τινα connect it with him, refer it to him, [[ [prev. author] “IT” [59]; σ. λόγον πρός τι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 60.12; πρὸς τὸ ἄκρον οὐ σ. τὸν συλλογισμόν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 69a18 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. ἀλλήλοις τό τ᾽ ἐκστάντες καὶ τὸ ὀξέως” take together, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.547] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; συνῆψε τὸν λόγον he continues as follows, [[ [prev. author] 15.148] Refs]; but σ. τὸν λόγον, abridge, [[ 5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative et dative, associate with or attribute to, τί τινι [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 11.9, “Sent.Vat.” 39, 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1055.15, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, συνάπτεται ἕτερον ἐξ ἄλλου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 245e, compare “Phd.” 60b (variant), 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.37U., “Nat.” 28.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the words of a sentence, συνάπτεσθαι ἀλλήλοις [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.546. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
Browse lexicon entries__A.II with regard to persons,
__A.II.1 in hostile sense, σ. τὰ στρατόπεδα εἰς μάχην bring them into action, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐλπὶς.. ἣ πολλὰς πόλεις συνῆψε has engaged them in conflict, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 480 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so συνῆψε πάντας ἐς μίαν βλάβην involved them in.., [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 1303; for 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1317, see at {συλλύω} 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.1.b σ. μάχην join battle, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108; στρατεύματι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 336, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 808; σ. πόλεμον πρός τινας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.13; συνάψαι πόλεμον Ἕλλησιν μέγαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 55, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.18; τοῖς σοφοῖς εὐκτὸν σοφῷ ἔχθραν συνάπτειν [prev. author] “Heracl.” 459; σ. ἀλκήν [prev. author] “Supp.” 683 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also (without μάχην), engage, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 686 (troch.); σ. συνάψεις LXX.2Ki.10.34; σ. φασγάνων ἀκμάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1482 (Lyric poetry); ἔγχη [prev. author] “Ph.” 1192 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; οὐκ εὐθὺς συνῆψε τὰς ἀπορίας has not immediately rejoined by stating the difficulties, [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.533 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, approach, make contact, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 25 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, μοι πρός τινας νεῖκος συνῆπτο [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.158, compare 6.94. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.2 in friendly sense, σ. ἑαυτὸν εἰς λόγους τινί enter into conversation with him, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 468 (compare below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.1); φιλία σ. τοὺς καλούς τε κἀγαθούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.22:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, παλλακαῖς συνημμένος, of Aristotle, [[ “App.Anth.” 5.11. ] Refs]
__A.II.2.b with accusative of things, σ. μῦθον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 566; σ. ὅρκους [prev. author] “Ph.” 1241; κοινωνίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 6.3; φιλίαν πρός τινα 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 19.13, compare 2.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus, σ. τινὶ γάμους, λέκτρα, κῆδος] Refs 5th c.BC+], form an alliance by marriage, [[ “Ph.” 1049 (Lyric poetry), 49, “Andr.” 620, etc.; γένναν [prev. author] “fragment” 558; τὸν ἔρωτα τῇ κούρῃ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.5:] Refs 2nd c.AD+] —in middle, κῆδος ξυνάψασθαι τῆς θυγατρός get one's daughter married, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, οἱ γάμοι συνήφθησαν [[ “PLips.” 41.7 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ᾧ συνήφθην ἐκ παρθενίας [[ “PSI” 1.41.5 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; συναφθεῖσά μοι ὡς γαμετή,.. συνήφθην σοι πρὸς γάμου καὶ βίου κοινωνίαν, [[ “PMasp.” 153.5, 8 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; μὴ πρὸς γάμον ἡ παῖς καὶ ἑτέρῳ τινὶ συναφθείη [[ 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor p.227 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III in Mathematics texts, especially in perfect passive, ὁ λόγος συνῆπται ἔκ τε τοῦ.. καὶ τοῦ.. the ratio is compounded of.. , [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.4, +others] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀναλογία συνημμένη continued proportion [[compare (συνεχής 1.3), 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 2.21 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; συνημμένη μεσότης geometric mean, [[[prev. passage] ] Refs]
__A.III.2 in Music, συνημμένα τετράχορδα conjunct tetrachords, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1029a; ἡ συνημμένων νήτη [prev. work] 1137c. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.III.3 in Logic, συνημμένον ἀξίωμα or τὸ σ., hypothetical proposition as premiss in a syllogism. [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.68, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 32, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.109, 2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 16.8.9: _plural_, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.43c, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.533 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κοῖα συνῆπτα; what conclusion follows? [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 70.3:—compare συνάρτησις 11. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__B.I in local sense, border on, lie next to, τὸ πεδίον τοῦτο συνάπτει τῷ Αἰγυπτίῳ πεδίῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.75; Τήνῳ συνάπτουσ᾽ Ἄνδρος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 885 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γεώλοφοι συνάπτοντες [τῷ ποταμῷ] reaching to.. , [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.67.9; ἐὰν διώρυγες συνάπτωσι τοῖς Χώμασι “PLille” 1v. 7 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; [τῆς τραχείας ἀρτηρίας] τὸ συνάπτον τῷ στόματι πέρας [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.421; ποταμοῦ στόμα συνάπτον θαλάττῃ [prev. work]712; αὗται μὲν σ., αἱ δ᾽ ἄλλαι ἀσύναπτοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 516a30; δύο πόροι εἰς ἓν σ. [prev. work] 508a13; τὰ βράγχια σ. ἀλλήλοις [prev. work] 507a5; ἡ κοιλία σ. πρὸς τὸ στόμα [prev. work] 507a28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the sides of a cone, πρὸς μίαν κορυφὴν συνάπτειν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Vertigine” 4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.I.2 of Time, to be nigh at hand, ὥρα συνάπτει [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.247; σ. πρὸς τὸν Χειμῶνα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.25; συνάψαντος τοῦ Χρόνου 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.2.8; συνάψαντος τοῦ καιροῦ [prev. author] 6.36.1, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.I.3 metaphorically, σ. ἐν αὐτῇ πάνθ᾽ ὅσα δεῖ τοῖς φίλοις ὑπάρχειν meet together, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1156b18 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐ σ. [αὗται αἱ φιλίαι] do not combine, [[[prev. work] 1157a34 ] Refs]; to be connected with, τῷ γένει αἱ ἰδέαι σ. [[ [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1042a15; σ. πρός τι [prev. author] “Pol.” 1276a7, “Cat.” 4b26, “APr.” 41a1 ] Refs]; attach, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 580a15 ] Refs]; λύπη σ. [τῷ θεραπεύειν] [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 187 (_anapaest meter_), compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.174 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ πόνος ὁ ὑπερβάλλων συνάψει θανάτῳ will border upon death, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 448 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. εἴς τι have reference to, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.1.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.II of persons, ξ. λόγοισιν enter into conversation, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 21; ἐς λόγους σ. τινί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 702 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. εἰς Χορεύματα join the dance, [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 133 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ἐς Χεῖρα γῇ come close to land, [[ [prev. author] “Heracl.” 429 ] Refs]; σ. εἰς τὸν καιρόν come in just at the right time, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.19.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; σ. τοῖς ἄκροις reach, them, [[ [prev. author] 3.93.5, etc.; σ. εἰς Σελεύκειαν [prev. author] 5.66.4; πρὸς τὴν παρεμβολήν [prev. author] 3.53.10, etc. ] Refs]
__B.II.2 τύχα ποδὸς ξυνάπτει (assuming variant, -πτοι Murray) μοι, i.e. I have come fortunately, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1014 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 Astrology texts, of a heavenly body, to be in conjunction (συναφή) with another, [[ 2nd c.BC(?): Nechepso Astrologus cited in 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 280.2, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 52, “PMag. Leid.W.” 24.15, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.452, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “H.” 1. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__C middle, unite for oneself and so form, φιλίαν [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.32; κῆδος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 41.57; see.above 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.2b. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__C.2 to be next to, connected with, τινι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C.3 lay hold of, τοῦ καιροῦ [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.28.8. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__C.4 take part with one, assist, τινι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1444: _absolutely_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 742 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινος in a thing, [[[prev. work] 724 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 874. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C.5 bring upon oneself, πληγάς [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.32. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]