συσπάω,
draw together, contract, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 71c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀνίημι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 949a9, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ δέρμα[[ [prev. work] 888a39, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 65; συνεσπᾰκὼς τοὺς δακτύλους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 13; τὰς ὀφρῦς [prev. author] “Vit.Auct.” 7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, σ. τὰς κοχώνας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 482 (assuming variant)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be drawn up, retracted, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 508a21, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but also, to be shrivelled up by fire, [[ LXX.Lam.5.10 ] LXX]; συνεσπασμένους σμένους ὑπὸ νόσου [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.92 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; συνεσπασμένοι καὶ κακοπινεῖς shrivelled and dirty, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.565d: _metaphorically_, λόγοι ἰσχνοὶ καὶ συνεσπ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. dry and shrunken, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 15. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II draw together by stitching, sew together, διφθέρας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III in middle, draw along with one, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 16. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]