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συ-ζεύγνυ_μι ,
A.yoke together, couple, “ἵππους” Hdt.4.189, X.Cyr.2.2.26 (Pass.); esp. in marriage, “τῷ μὲν φίλην σύζευξον ἄλοχον” E.Alc. 166, cf. X.Oec.7.30; “ς. νέους καὶ νέας” Arist.Pol.1335a16 sq.; τὸν Ἄρη πρὸς τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ib.1269b28:—Med., yoke for oneself, “ἅρμα” X.Cyr. 6.1.51:—Pass., to be yoked with, coupled with, paired, “μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων” Arist.HA585b9; “πρὸς ἀλλήλας” Plb.8.4.2: metaph., τῷ συνέζευξαι πλάνῳ; v.l. for προσ- in E.Alc.482; “τὸν ἐμὸν δαίμον᾽, ᾧ συνεζύγην” Id.Andr.98; τίνι πότμῳ συνεζύγην; Id.Hel.255; “οἵᾳ ξυμφορᾷ συνεζύγης” Id.Hipp.1389 (conversely, “συνέζευκται τὸ πάθος τινί” Phld. Ir.p.57 W.); συζυγέντες ὁμιλοῦσι they live in close familiarity, X. Lac.2.12.
2. less freq., also in Pass., of things, to be closely united, “ἁ ψυχὰ τῷ σώματι συνέζευκται” Philol.14; “πεμπάδι συζυγείς” Pl.R.546c; “συνέζευκται ἡ φρόνησις τῇ τοῦ ἤθους ἀρετῇ” Arist.EN 1178a16, cf. 1175a19; “διορίζεται τοῖς συνεζευγμένοις συμπτώμασι” Gal.16.535.
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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