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ἐπικοιν-ωνέω ,
A.communicate with, “τῷ ἔξω χωρίῳ” Hp.Prog.7; “ἀλλήλοις” Pl.Sph.251d; of troops in order of battle, to be in touch with, “τοῖς ἄκροις” Ascl.Tact.1.3; “ἐ. πᾶσαι αἱ ἐπιστῆμαι ἀλλήλαις κατὰ τὰ κοινά” Arist.APo.77a26; τίνι οὐκ ἐ. [τὸ μάθημα] τῶν ἐπικαιροτάτων ἐν ἰητρικῇ; Hp.Fract.31, cf. Pl.Grg.464c: c. dat. pers., D.29.36.
2.. share in a thing with one, τῶν γραμμάτων τί ἐπικοινωνεῖ; what letters has it in common? Pl.Cra..394c; νόμος οὐδὲν ἐπικοινωνῶν τῷ περὶ τῶν στεφανουμένων νόμῳ having nothing in common with . . , Aeschin.3.44: generally, share in, c.gen., Ph.1.561.
3.. to be in partnership with, c. dat., POxy.1280.6 (iv A.D.).
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 (6):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 44
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus, 36
    • Plato, Sophist, 251d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 464c
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 31
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 7
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