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σύνεδρ-ος , ον, (ἕδρα)
A.sitting with in council, of persons, Hdt.3.34, Ps.-E.IA192 (lyr.); ἐκ . . συνέδρου καὶ τυραννικοῦ κύκλου, = ἐκ κύκλου τῶν συνεδρευόντων τυράννων, S.Aj.749.
2. of birds, sitting together, friendly, Arist.HA608b29.
II. as Subst., ς., ὁ, ἡ, one who sits with others, assessor, coadjutor, “Δίκη ξ. Ζηνὸς . . νόμοις” S.OC1382; ξύνεδροι select commissioners, Th.4.22, cf. 5.86, SIG273.2 (Milet., iv B.C.), IG22.686.5 (iii B.C.); delegates to the assembly of the second Athenian league, ib.43.44 (iv B.C.), al., Isoc.8.29, Jusj. ap. D.24.150.
2. in pl., = βουλή, IG12(9).234.40 (Eretria, ii B.C.); “γνώμη συνέδρων” OGI213.1 (Didyma, iv/iii B.C.); οἱ ς. τῶν νησιωτῶν ib.40.1 (iii B.C.).
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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