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συμπαθ-ής , ές,
A.affected by like feelings, sympathetic, “οὐδεὶς ὁμαίμου -έστερος φίλος” Pl.Com.192; “ς. ἐστιν ὁ ἀκροατὴς τῷ ᾁδοντι” Arist.Pr.921a36, cf. Pol.1340a13; πρὸς τὰ γεννηθέντα συμπαθέστεραι μᾶλλον αἱ μητέρες γίνονται [τῶν τιτθῶν] Sor.1.87, cf. 88.
2. exerting mutual influence, interacting, “ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ τὸ σῶμα συμπαθῆ” Arist.Phgn.808b19, cf. Epicur.Ep.1p.20U.; νεῦρα ἀλλήλοις ς. AP11.352 (Agath.); sensitive to influence, “τὸ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ θερμόν . . -έστατον” Arist.PA653b6, cf. Thphr.CP1.7.4; of the members of an organism, Hp.Alim.23, Plot.4.5.8; “ὁ κόσμος σύμπνους καὶ ς. αὐτὸς αὑτῷ” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.264; exciting sympathy, “χερῶν ς. ὑπτιασμός” Phld.Rh.1.52 S., cf. D.H.2.45: Sup., PHerc.176p.39V.
3. of planets, in concord, Vett.Val.37.14; defined by Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).226.
II. Adv. -θῶς sympathetically, Phld. Lib.p.37 O., Cic.Att.12.44.1; “τῇ σελήνῃ” Str.3.5.8; “ς. ἔχειν πρός τινα” J.AJ7.10.5; “-έστερον ἐρᾶσθαι” Arist.Mir.846b9, cf. Plu.2.3c; “-έστατα” IG12(2).58b33 (Mytil., 1 B.C.).
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 12.44.1
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 7.10.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 3.5.8
    • Hippocrates, De alimento, 23
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.45
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