sun-thetos , on, also fem. sunthetê (or sunthetê as in Lys.Fr.34, Arist.Ph.265a21, Metaph.1051b27, al.): ( [suntithêmi] ):--
A. put together, compounded, composite, Pl.Phd.78c, al.; of a centaur, diairetos . . kai palin s. X.Cyr.4.3.20, cf. Lys.l.c.; to s. the composite part of man, Arist.EN1178a20; s. ek pollôn Pl.R. 611b ; ek tôn autôn Id.Phlb.29e ; s. anagnôrisis complex, Arist.Po. 1455a12.
2. suntheton, to, compound, Id.Ph.187b12; ta s., opp. ta stoicheia, Id.Cael.306b20, cf. Metaph.1070b8; so hê sunthetos ousia ib.1043a30; hê sunthetê ousia ib.1023b2, cf. de An.412a16; hai mê s. ousiai Id.Metaph.1051b27 ; cf. sunkeimai 11.4 .
3. in various technical senses,
a. in Grammar, phônê s. a. compound sound, i.e. a syllable, Id.Po.1456b35; or a word, ib.1457a11; phônôn hai men haplai (e.g. Diôn), hai de s. (e.g. Diôn peripatei) S.E.M.8.135; s. onomata compound nouns, Arist.Rh.Al.1434b34, Demetr.Eloc.91, Philomnest. 2; s. schêma D.T.635.21 ; s. prosêgoria (e. g. hupnôdês kataphora) Gal.7.643. Adv. -tôs Str.13.2.5 , Sor.2.26, Gal.6.549.
b. in Metre and Music, s. rhuthmos a compound foot, Pl.R.400b; [diastêmata] s. Aristid.Quint.1.7, cf. Plu.2.1135b; harmonian einai s. pragma Pl.Phd. 92a .
c. in Arithmetic, s. arithmos a number composed of several factors, Arist.Metaph.1020b4, Euc.7 Def.14.
d. in Medicine, suntheta solid excrements, Hp.Coac.109: also pharmakon s. compound drug, to x. [pharmakon] to dia tês limnêstidos kai euphorbiou kai purethrou Aret.CD1.2 , cf. Hsch. s.v. pharikon.
II. put together, got up, fictitious, logoi A.Pr.686 .
III. metaph., agreed upon, covenanted, hôsper ek sunthetou by agreement, Hdt.3.86.
A. uncompounded, Pl.Phd.78c, Tht.205c, Arist.Pol.1252a19; freq. in Gramm., as A.D.Synt.172.27, al.; a. phônê a word standing alone, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.50. Adv. -tôs Eust.17.6 .
II. ( [suntithemai] ) bound by no covenant, faithless, ho dêmos estin pragma tôn pantôn asunthetôtaton D.19.136 (v.l. asunet-), cf. Ep.Rom.1.31; making no covenants, a. diatelousi Phld.Herc.1251.19 .
A. one after another, in order, in a row, hexês eunazonto Od.4.449 ; hexês d' hezomenoi ib.580 (elsewh. Hom. uses the form hexeiês, Il.6.241, Od.4.408); pantas he. . . kteinontes Th.7.29 , cf. E.Fr.657.2; ta he. v.l. in Arist. Cael.310b12.
b. Math., he. analogon in continued proportion, Euc. 8.1, al.; hoi he. arithmoi successive numbers, Archim.Spir.Praef.; grammai he. keimenai placed in order, ib.11; toutou he. ginomenou if this be done continually, Id.Sph.Cyl.1.11.
2. he. diexelthein, legein, in a regular, consequential manner, Pl.Plt.257b, 286c; tou he. heneka perainesthai ton logon Id.Grg.454c ; ho he. logos the following argument, Id.Ti.20b; en hapasi toutois he. Longin.9.14 , cf. 4.4.
3. Gramm., to he. grammatical sequence, opp. huperbaton, A.D.Pron.41.3,al.; kai ta he., Lat. et cetera, PTeb. 319.34 (iii A. D.), etc.
4. of Time, thereafter, next, A.Fr.475, Ar.Ec.638; ton he. chronon Pl.Plt.271b ; hê he. hêmera Ev.Luc. 9.37 ; en tôi (v.l. têi) he. next day, ib.7.11; eis to he. for the future, POxy.474.28 (ii A.D.), etc.
b. of Place, next, E.IA249, Arist. Mu.392a26.
II. c.gen., next to, tinos Ar.Ra.765 ; ta toutôn he. Pl.R.390a ; toutôn he. next after . ., D.18.102 ; of logical connexion, Pl.Phlb.42c: c. dat., next to, Lachêti . . tên he. thuran Ephipp.16 ; toutois he. next in order to, Pl.Cra.399d , al.; to he. têi geômetriai what comes next to . ., Id.R.528a ; to he. ergon tois Marathôni next after, Id.Mx.241a ; he. Aristogeitoni beside A. , Ar.Lys.633; para to he. tôi noerôi zôiôi that which befits . ., M.Ant.4.5 ; epechorêgêsa autêi ta he. made suitable provision for her, POxy.282.7 (i A.D.).
A. continuity, tês kinêseôs Arist.Metaph.1050b26 ; [tôn neurôn] Id.HA515b6; [hê rhachis] mia men dia tên s., polumerês de têi diairesei tôn spondulôn Id.PA654b15 , cf. HA559a7; s. echein pros ti Id.PA652b3 ; ho holos onkos hôsper kata sunecheian trephetai kai epididôsi Thphr.CP1.12.4 ; s. ginetai there is a continuous succession (of flowering), Id.HP6.8.4, cf. 7.10.3; s. tôn akrobolismôn, tês machês, Plb.5.100.2, Hdn.8.5.2.
b. coherence, pros ta oikeia merê Stoic.2.145 ; nosos . . tês s. [tou sômatos] tôn merôn diairesis Gal.7.2 ; odunê ginetai . . tês s. luomenês Id.15.515 .
c. kata sunecheian arithmeisthai to be reckoned by conjunction (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4; 4, 5, 6, 7), Steph.in Hp.1.198 D.
2. mere sequence of words, Pl.Sph.261e, 262c; connexion in a sentence, tôn onomatôn D.H.Vett.Cens.5.2 , cf. Comp.23; grammatôn Demetr.Eloc.68 ; also of argument, hai kata sunecheian [protaseis], = sunêmmena axiômata (cf. sunaptô A. 111.3 ), Stoic.2.71, cf. 85; s. apodeixeôn Luc.Dem.Enc.32 ; hê en tôi logizesthai s. Plu. [p. 1714] 2.792d; puknotês kai sunecheia Hermog.Id.2.10 .
3. of Time, link, Arist.Ph.222a10.
4. sequence, chain of cause and effect, episundesis kai s. tôn aitiôn Alex.Aphr.Fat.195.3 ; tôn ephexês s. kai sumplokê Plot.3.1.4 .
5. continuity of substance, viscosity, (sc. elaiou) Thphr. Od.18; of dripping honey, mê . . hugron, hôs apospasthai tês s. Gal.6.270; hê pros ton omphalon tou embruou s. Sor.1.71; of broken bones, Id.Fract.5, al.; s. tôn phutôn Hdn.7.2.5 .
6. compactness, close order, of military formation, Arr.Tact.11.4, Ael.Tact.11.4.
II. continued attention, perseverance, D.18.218; continuance of an action, têi s. tês meletês Hierocl. in CA27p.484M. ; practice, Plot.4.6.3; sunecheias dêlôtikê, = frequentativa, Gloss.
I. of Space, continuous, Parm. 8.6,25, Arist.Metaph.1069a5, Ph.200b18, al.; of quantity, opp. diôrismenos, Id.Cat.4b20; s. nôton Pl.R.616e ; suneches poikilon a continuity of variety, Id.Phd.110d; s. oikêmata Th.3.21 .
b. c. dat., continuous with or contiguous to, in a line with, Hdt.4.22, E.Hipp. 226 (anap.), Arist.Mete.339a22, Mu.392a23, etc.: less freq. c. gen., ib.393a29 (s. v.l.); tomai s. apo mias mechri tôn deka Pl.Lg.738a : abs., s. êsan Kilikes Plb.30.25.4 , cf. Str.11.6.2.
2. of words, etc., x. rhêsis Th.5.85 ; pas ho s. logos Plb.1.5.5 ; toutôi sunaptontes to s. Id.3.3.2; to s. connexion of letters, Plu.Lys.19: c. dat., logos s. tôi nundê genomenos Pl.Ep.318e ; skepsis s. tois proteron Thphr.CP 6.3.3 .
3. Math., of proportions, s. analogia continued proportion (opp. diêirêmenê), i.e. three terms in geometrical progression, Arist.EN1131a33, Archim.Aequil.2.9; kata to s. analogon Id.Sph. Cyl.2.5 , etc.
b. successive, of integers as terms in a series, Theol.Ar.54; of middle terms in argument, Arist.APo.87b6.
4. of things, continuous, conjoined, Id.HA509b13, etc.; folld. by a Prep., s. pros ti ib.495b20; of substance, clinging, dense, to glischrasma [tês ptisanês] leion kai s . . . esti Hp.Acut.10 , cf. Gal. 6.822; aêr, elaion, Plu.2.396a,696b; to puknon kai s. ib.701f; [gala] leion kai homalon kai s. heautôi Sor.1.91 .
II. of Time, continuous, unintermitting, s. puretos, opp. dialeipôn, Hp.Aph.3.21; sts. distd. from sunochos puretos, Anon. ap. Gal.17(1).220; s. kaumata kai puretous Pl. Ti.86a ; [thermotês] Thphr.Ign.33; kinêsis Id.Lass.15 ; ponos -esteros Th.7.81 ; polemos dia biou s. Pl.Lg.625e; sunousia, basileia, X.Smp.8.18 (Comp.), Ages.1.4; potoi Men.914 , cf. Sophil. 3; s. kakopathiai OGI244.12 (Daphne, ii B.C.); s. ginesthai, pnein, of winds, Arist.Mete.362a11,26, Thphr.Vent.1; to akritôs x. tês hamillês Th.7.71 ; to s. ergou (prob. for ergon) Anaxandr.63; tou dêmou to s. continuous intercourse with . . , Plu.Per.7; kata to s. continuously, Plb. 2.2.7; consecutively, in what follows, Gal.15.116; ek toutou kata to s. immediately after that, ib.902.
2. frequent, tôn ornithôn hêkista s. kai sunêthês [ho gups] Plu.2.286a; loutrois sunechesi chrêsthai Sor.1.65 ; chasmê s. ib.24; -estera estô hê ekmuzêsis ib.97.
III. of persons, constant, persevering, X.Oec.21.9; en tais . . pros ta pathê diamachais Plu.2.74c ; cf. Poll.4.20, 6.147.
B. Adv. su^nechôs, Ep. and Ion. -eôs (v. sub fin.):
b. without leaving an interval, immediately, epithue . . , kai lege ton logon sunechôs ton tês epiklêseôs PMag.Par.1.1865 , cf. BGU451.15 (i/ii A.D.), PFlor.332.18 (ii A.D.); didotai pros ta thanasima s. pinomenon kai exemoumenon Dsc.1.30 ; bdellas kausas kai leanas chrô s. proektilas (sc. superfluous eyelashes) Aët.7.69.
c. at frequent intervals, hina mê s. louêtai to brephos Sor.1.99 ; melikraton s. enstazomen ib.123; ta brephê -esteron exerai [to gala] . . nautiônta ib.109; potizôn -esteron ek diastêmatôn Gp.10.18.5 ; -esteron, = saepius, Gloss.; -estata, = saepissime, ib.
2. freq. with Numbers, in succession, consecutively, hormathous melôn ephexês tettaras x. Ar.Ra.915; hêmeras hebdomêkonta x. Th.2.75; mênas oktô s. Ephipp.5.15 (anap.); similarly, ou s. ephexês en taxei pepoiêmenos [ton logon] Gal.15.496.
3. rarely of Space, s. einai pasan oikoumenên Arist.Mete. 362b29 ; s. mechri . . Plb.2.14.6 .
II. suneches as Adv. freq. in Ep., as Il.12.26; strengthd., s. aiei unceasing ever, Od.9.74; also in Pi. I.4(3).65(83), Ar.Eq.21, and freq. in later Ep., Arat.20, Call.Ap.60, etc.; also in later Prose, Luc.Somn.4, D.L.2.32, al. [su_neches Hom. ll. cc. and su_necheôs Hes. l. c., B.5.113, metri gr.; also Theoc.20.12, A.R.1.1271.]
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