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σύμβα^σις , εως, Ion. ιος, ἡ, (
A.“συμβαίνω” 1) bringing one foot up to the other, in walking, Hp.Art.58.
2. juncture of ribs, Ruf.Oss. 25.
II. (“συμβαίνω” 11) agreement, arrangement, treaty, “συμβάσιες . . οὐκ ἐθέλουσι συμμένειν” Hdt.1.74; “ς. ποιεῖσθαι” E.Supp.739; δὸς σύμβασιν τέκνοις make them friends, Id.Ph.85; “εἰς ξ. παῖδα ἄγειν” Id.Andr.423; “ἡ ξ. ἐγένετο” Th.3.28; ἀπὸ ξυμβάσεως by agreement, Id.4.130.
III. (“συμβαίνω” 111) conjunction, Pl.Ep.359b; concurrence, coincidence, συμβάσεως ἔξω πάσης καὶ συνθέσεως, said of τὸ ἕν, Plot.5.4.1, cf. 6.1.26, 6.8.14; κατὰ σύμβασιν, technical term of the Empirics, expld. by Gal.10.164.
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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    • Euripides, Andromache, 423
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 85
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.74
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    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 58
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