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συμπνέω , poet. συμπληρ-πνείω Supp.Epigr.7.12.11 (Susa, i B.C.):—
A.breathe together with, τινι M.Ant.8.54, AP7.595 (Jul.): metaph., ἐμπαίοις τύχαισι συμπνέων going along with the sudden blasts of fortune, yielding or bowing to them, A.Ag.187 (lyr.); συμπνέον τῇ ὀργῇ, gloss on ἔγχεος ζακότοιο, Sch.Pi.N.6.90.
2. abs., coalesce, achieve unity, Pl.Lg.708d, Arist.Pol.1303a26, Plu.Comp.Lyc.Num.4; “συμπνευσάντων ἡμῶν καὶ Θηβαίων” D.18.168; “οἱονεὶ ς. ἐς γάμον” Ael.NA 3.44.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 187
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 168
    • Plato, Laws, 708d
    • Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, 4
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 3.44
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 8.54
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