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σύγκειμαι , Pass.,
A.lie together, τρεῖς ὁμοῦ ς. S.Aj.1309, cf. Thphr. HP1.2.1; νεκρὸς μόνα τὰ ὀστᾶ κατὰ σχῆμα συγκείμενος having only the bones lying together in their places, Luc.Philops.31.
II. as Pass. of συντίθημι, to be composed or compounded, “σύγκειται τὸ σῶμα ἐξ ὀστῶν καὶ νεύρων” Pl.Phd.98c; “ἐκ στοιχείων” Id.Tht.201e, cf. X.Cyn. 5.29; “τὴν φύσιν ἡμῶν ἔκ τε τοῦ σώματος συγκεῖσθαι καὶ τῆς ψυχῆς” Isoc.15.180; χορὸς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ς. X.Oec.8.3; “μέλος ἐκ τριῶν ς., λόγου, ἁρμονίας, ῥυθμοῦ” Pl.R.398d, cf. Phd.92a; “δέον συγκεῖσθαι τὴν ἀρίστην πολιτείαν ἐκ δημοκρατίας καὶ τυραννίδος” Arist.Pol.1266a1; of quack-doctors, “οἱ ἐξ [ἀδοξίης] συγκείμενοι” Hp.Lex1; “ἐξ ὀνομάτων ς. ἄνθρωπος” Aeschin.3.229; “ἐξ ἀσελγείας καὶ ὠμότητος ἔχων συγκειμένην τὴν ψυχήν” Plu.Sull.13; c. gen. only, “ἅρμα ἵππων ς. τεττάρων” Philostr. Im.1.17; εἰς ἓν ς. compounded into one body, Pl.Phlb.29d: in later Gr. c. gen., belong to, “πολιτείας” PMasp.20.15 (vi A.D.).
2. of written compositions, to be composed, κτῆμα ἐς αἰεὶ . . ξύγκειται [ὁ λόγος] Th.1.22, cf. Pl.Hp.Ma.286a; ποίημα ς. Id.Ly.221d; “λόγοι πρὸς Δημοσθένην αὐτῷ συγκείμενοι” Aeschin.2.47; συμφοραὶ ὑπὸ ποιητῶν συγκείμεναι misfortunes composed or invented by poets, Isoc.4.168; οὔπω ς. τέχνη περὶ αὐτῶν no art of Rhetoric has yet been put together, Arist. Rh.1403b35, cf. 1402a17; “ὁ μῦθος ς. ἐκ θαυμασίων” Id.Metaph.982b19; also “λόγος λαμπρὸς καὶ συγκείμενος” Suid. s.v. Μεθόδιος; of persons, τὴν γλῶτταν ξ. Philostr.VA4.36.
3. to be contrived, concocted, “τῇδε ς. δόλος” E.Rh.215; πιστότερον ἢ ἀληθέστερον ς. Antipho 3.3.4; “πάντα αὐτῷ σύγκειται καὶ μεμηχάνηται” Lys.3.26; τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα πλασθέντα . . , συγκείμενα ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν πολιτῶν βλάβῃ concocted, Id.12.48.
4. τὴν οὐσίαν τὴν συγκειμένην composed of matter and form, Arist.Metaph.1054b5; τὸ ς. complex, ib.1051b4, 1076b18, cf. “σύνθετος” 1.2.
5. Math., to be the sum of . . , “ὁ κῶνος, ἐξ ἴσων συγκείμενος κύκλων” Democr.155; “οἱ κύλινδροι ἐξ ὧν σύγκειται τὸ ἐγγραφὲν σχῆμα” Archim.Con.Sph.21, cf. Sph.Cyl.1.11, etc.; ὁσάκις σύγκειται ἁ ΓΔ γραμμὰ ἐν τᾷ ΑΔ as many times as the straight line ΓΔ is contained in ΑΔ, Id.Spir.1; also, to be a ratio compounded of two others, Euc.6.23, Apollon.Perg.Con.1.11, etc.
III. to be agreed on by two parties, “σημεῖον ὃ ξυνέκειτο” Th.4.111; “ταῦτα ἡμῖν οὕτω συγκείσθω” Pl.Lg.822c; also “τὰς σπονδὰς οὐδετέρας ἔφη καλῶς ξυγκεῖσθαι” Th.8.43: freq. in part., agreed on, arranged, “ἡμέραι αἱ συγκείμεναι” Hdt.3.157; ὑστέρησαν ἡμέρῃ μιῇ τῆς ς. Id.6.89; φλογὸς σημεῖα τὰ ξ. Ar.Ec.6; ὁ ς. [χρόνος] the time agreed upon, Hdt.4.152; “ς. χωρίον” Id.8.128, cf. 5.50; κατὰ τὰ ς. according to the terms of the agreement, Id.3.158, etc.; κατὰ τὰ ς. πρός τινα according to what had been agreed on with him, Id.6.14, cf. Arist.Pol.1308a1; ἐκ τῶν ξ. Th.5.25; παρὰ τὰ ς. Luc.JTr.37; “ἀπὸ ξ. λόγου” Th.8.94.
2. impers. σύγκειται, it has been or is agreed on, “τῆς ὥρης ἐς τὴν συνέκειτό σφι ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι” Hdt.9.52: abs., “καθάπερ ξυνέκειτο” Th.4.23; ὥσπερ ς. X.HG5.1.10, cf. Pl.Cra. 433e, etc.; “καθάπερ ἦν ξυγκείμενον” Ar.Ec.61; συγκειμένου σφι, c. inf., although they had agreed to . . , Hdt.5.62.
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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