A.holding together:
I. of Space, continuous, Parm. 8.6,25, Arist.Metaph.1069a5, Ph.200b18, al.; of quantity, opp. διωρισμένος, Id.Cat.4b20; “ς. νῶτον” Pl.R.616e; συνεχὲς ποικίλον a continuity of variety, Id.Phd.110d; “ς. οἰκήματα” 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.); “τομαὶ ς. ἀπὸ μιᾶς μέχρι τῶν δέκα” Pl.Lg.738a: abs., “ς. ἦσαν Κίλικες” Plb.30.25.4, cf. Str.11.6.2.
2. of words, etc., “ξ. ῥῆσις” Th.5.85; “πᾶς ὁ ς. λόγος” Plb.1.5.5; τούτῳ συνάπτοντες τὸ ς. Id.3.3.2; τὸ ς. connexion of letters, Plu.Lys.19: c. dat., “λόγος ς. τῷ νυνδὴ γενόμενος” Pl.Ep.318e; “σκέψις ς. τοῖς πρότερον” Thphr.CP 6.3.3.
3. Math., of proportions, ς. ἀναλογία continued proportion (opp. διῃρημένη), i.e. three terms in geometrical progression, Arist.EN1131a33, Archim.Aequil.2.9; “κατὰ τὸ ς. ἀνάλογον” 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., ς. πρός τι ib.495b20; of substance, clinging, dense, “τὸ γλίσχρασμα [τῆς πτισάνης] λεῖον καὶ ς . . . ἐστι” Hp.Acut.10, cf. Gal. 6.822; ἀήρ, ἔλαιον, Plu.2.396a,696b; τὸ πυκνὸν καὶ ς. ib.701f; [“γάλα] λεῖον καὶ ὁμαλὸν καὶ ς. ἑαυτῷ” Sor.1.91.
II. of Time, continuous, unintermitting, ς. πυρετός, opp. διαλείπων, Hp.Aph.3.21; sts. distd. from σύνοχος πυρετός, Anon. ap. Gal.17(1).220; “ς. καύματα καὶ πυρετούς” Pl. Ti.86a; [θερμότης] Thphr.Ign.33; “κίνησις” Id.Lass.15; “πόνος -έστερος” Th.7.81; πόλεμος διὰ βίου ς. Pl.Lg.625e; συνουσία, βασιλεία, X.Smp.8.18 (Comp.), Ages.1.4; “πότοι” Men.914, cf. Sophil. 3; “ς. κακοπαθίαι” OGI244.12 (Daphne, ii B.C.); ς. γίνεσθαι, πνεῖν, of winds, Arist.Mete.362a11,26, Thphr.Vent.1; “τὸ ἀκρίτως ξ. τῆς ἁμίλλης” Th.7.71; τὸ ς. ἔργου (prob. for ἔργον) Anaxandr.63; τοῦ δήμου τὸ ς. continuous intercourse with . . , Plu.Per.7; κατὰ τὸ ς. continuously, Plb. 2.2.7; consecutively, in what follows, Gal.15.116; ἐκ τούτου κατὰ τὸ ς. immediately after that, ib.902.
2. frequent, τῶν ὀρνίθων ἥκιστα ς. καὶ συνήθης [ὁ γύψ] Plu.2.286a; “λουτροῖς συνεχέσι χρῆσθαι” Sor.1.65; χάσμη ς. ib.24; -εστέρα ἔστω ἡ ἐκμύζησις ib.97.
III. of persons, constant, persevering, X.Oec.21.9; “ἐν ταῖς . . πρὸς τὰ πάθη διαμάχαις” Plu.2.74c; cf. Poll.4.20, 6.147.
I. mostly of Time, continually, continuously, unremittingly, Hes.Th.636, Hdt. 7.16.γ́, E.IA1008, IG12.57.54, etc.; “ξ. πολεμεῖν” Th.2.1, cf. 1.11, 5.24, Antipho 6.44; “συνεχέως αἰεί” Hdt.1.67, cf. Pl.Lg.706a; ἀεὶ ς. ib.807e; οἱ ς. ἐτῶν οὐκ ὀλίγων ἐφεξῆς γενόμενοι (v.l. γιν-)“ λιμοί” Gal.6.749: Comp. “-έστερον” A.D.Pron.65.17: Sup. “-έστατα” X.Mem.4.2.6.
b. without leaving an interval, immediately, “ἐπίθυε . . , καὶ λέγε τὸν λόγον συνεχῶς τὸν τῆς ἐπικλήσεως” PMag.Par.1.1865, cf. BGU451.15 (i/ii A.D.), PFlor.332.18 (ii A.D.); “δίδοται πρὸς τὰ θανάσιμα ς. πινόμενον καὶ ἐξεμούμενον” Dsc.1.30; βδέλλας καύσας καὶ λεάνας χρῶ ς. προεκτίλας (sc. superfluous eyelashes) Aët.7.69.
c. at frequent intervals, “ἵνα μὴ ς. λούηται τὸ βρέφος” Sor.1.99; μελίκρατον ς. ἐνστάζομεν ib.123; τὰ βρέφη -έστερον ἐξερᾷ [τὸ γάλα] . . ναυτιῶντα ib.109; “ποτίζων -έστερον ἐκ διαστημάτων” Gp.10.18.5; -έστερον, = saepius, Gloss.; -έστατα, = saepissime, ib.
2. freq. with Numbers, in succession, consecutively, ὁρμαθοὺς μελῶν ἐφεξῆς τέτταρας ξ. Ar.Ra.915; ἡμέρας ἑβδομήκοντα ξ. Th.2.75; μῆνας ὀκτὼ ς. Ephipp.5.15 (anap.); similarly, οὐ ς. ἐφεξῆς ἐν τάξει πεποιημένος [τὸν λόγον] Gal.15.496.
II. συνεχές as Adv. freq. in Ep., as Il.12.26; strengthd., ς. αἰεί 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. [“συ_νεχές” Hom. ll. cc. and “συ_νεχέως” Hes. l. c., B.5.113, metri gr.; also Theoc.20.12, A.R.1.1271.]