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συμπάθ-εια [πα^], ἡ,
A.fellow-feeling, sympathy, Arist.Pr.7 tit., etc.; “τῆς ἐλαίας πρὸς τὴν ἄμπελον” Gp.9.14.1; pity, “οὐδεμίαν ς. λαμβάνειν” D.S.13.57; mea ς. my self-pity, Cic.Att.10.8.10.
2. in the Philosophy of Epicurus, corresponding 'affection' or quality, affinity, Ep.1p.11U. (pl.), al.; ὁμούρησις καὶ ς. of body and soul, ib. p.20 U.; also in Stoic. Philos., affinity, τῶν μερῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα κοινωνία καὶ ς. Stoic.2.170, cf. 145; in Music, used of chords which vibrate together, Theo Sm.p.51 H.; sympathetic vibration of bronze vessels, Plb.21.28.9.
3. affinity, concord of heavenly bodies, Vett.Val.5.13.
4. Gramm., analogy, A.D.Adv.173.26, Synt.168.18.
5. Medic., sympathetic affection of the body, opp. ἰδιοπάθεια, Sor.1.63, 2.22, Gal.8.30; ἔστι τις [τῇ μήτρᾳ] πρὸς τοὺς μαστοὺς φυσικὴ ς. Sor.1.15.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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