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σύμ-πτωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.falling together, collapsing, Hp. Aph.1.3, Epid.6.3.1; “τῆς οἰκίας” Str.14.5.4, cf. 5.3.7, S.E.M.5.91, CIG3293 (Smyrna).
II. falling together, meeting, [ποταμῶν] Plb. 3.49.6; “ὀρῶν” Id.2.14.8; point of meeting or intersection, Archim. Sph.Cyl.1.10, al., Str.2.1.10,37, Ptol.Geog.1.3.1, Dam.Pr.29.
2. in hostile sense, attack, onset, Plb.1.57.7, etc.
3. = συνέμπτωσις, Sch.Ar.Th.21, A.D.Adv.151.5, Synt.52.8 (v.l. συνέμ-).
4. ς. φωνηέντων collision of vowels, Phld.Rh.1.163S.
III. incident, accident, Arist.HA585b25; circumstance, Plb.3.49.5.
IV. a disease of the eye, prob. contraction of the pupil, Gal.14.777; also, contraction of the throat, Aret.CA1.4.
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 (10):
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 21
    • Strabo, Geography, 2.1.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.57.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.14.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.49.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.49.6
    • Strabo, Geography, 14.5.4
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.3.7
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 1.3
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.4
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