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συγκαθ-ίζω ,
A.make to sit together or in a body, “τὰ συνέδρια” Hell.Oxy.11.4; “τὸν λαόν” LXX Ex.18.13:—Med. or Pass., sit in conclave, meet for deliberation, “ς. τὸ δικαστήριον” X.HG5.2.35, cf. D.Prooem.23 (v.l. -καθεζ-).
II. intr. in Act., sit together, Lib.Or.11.216.
2. settle down in a boiling pot, PHolm.19.8.
III. sit or settle down, of quadrupeds that lie down by doubling their legs under them, Arist. HA498a9; ς. ἐπὶ τὰ ὄπισθεν ib.578a21, cf. LXX Nu.22.27; σῶμα συγκεκαθικός a bent, stooping figure, Arist.Phgn.807b5; of men, crouch down, Plu.Arat.21; of women, Thessalus in Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(3).147; also τὰ νέφη εἰς τὰ κοῖλα ς. Thphr.Sign.3.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Demosthenes, Exordia, 23
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 18.13
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.35
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 22.27
    • Plutarch, Aratus, 21
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