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κόλλ-ησις , εως, ἡ, (κολλάω)
A.gluing, Hp.Art.39, Gal.18(1).456, Thphr.HP5.7.4; soldering, “κ. σιδήρου” Hdt.1.25, Plu.2.156b; “κ. χρυσίου” Thphr. Lap.26; “σωλήνων” POxy.915 (vi A.D.).
II. generally, fixing tight, close fastening, Hp.Art.33; of the cupping-glass, Arist.Rh. 1405b3.
b. closing up of wounds, Heliod. ap. Orib.45.6.2, Gal.11.440, 12.102.
c. binding material, “ἡ πρὸς ἄλληλα κ. ἰχώρ ἐστι καὶ ὑγρότης μυξώδης” Arist.Spir.485a1.
2. Rhet., union of a verse quotation with prose, Hermog.Meth.30.
3. metaph., close friendship, Eun.Hist.p.267 D.
4. Astron., apparent contact of planet with fixed star, Ptol.Alm.8.4 (pl.); of two planets on the same meridian, Vett. Val.115.17.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.25
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 33
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