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σύννομος (A), ον, (νέμω, νομή)
A.feeding in herds or together, ταῦροι, κριοί, τράγοι, Arist.HA571b22; ἵπποι ib.611a10; “μᾶλα” Theoc.8.56 codd.(dub.l.): ἀγέλη (metaph., of mankind) Zeno Stoic.1.61 (also “σύννομον ἡ φιλία ζῷον, οὐκ ἀγελαῖον” Plu.2.93e); φῦλα πάντα συννόμων of birds that flock together, Ar.Av.1756 (lyr.), cf. 209 (anap.); πάνθ᾽ ὅσα σύννομα ζῷα all animals that herd together, Pl.Criti.110b, cf. Lg.666e: c. dat., living with, τινι Luc.Syr.D.54: metaph., ἔρωτες ἄταισι ς. associated with . . , A.Ch.598 (lyr.); πνεύματα πόλει ς. Hp.Aër.3.
2. c. gen. rei, sharing or partaking in a thing, ς. τινί τινος partner with one in . . , Pi.I.3.17; τῶν ἐμῶν λέκτρων γεραιὰ ξύννομε partner of . . , A. Pers.704 (troch.); “τῶν ἐμῶν ὕμνων” Ar.Av.678 (lyr.): metaph., θαλάσσῃ (v.l. -ης） σύννομοι Σκιρωνίδες πέτραι, of the Scironides which lie between two seas, E.Hipp.979; πταναὶ σύννομοι νεφέων δρόμου winged partners with the racing clouds, i.e. swift as the clouds, Id.Hel.1488 (lyr.).
3. abs. as Subst., σύννομος, ὁ, ἡ, partner, consort, mate, of soldiers, A.Th.354 (lyr.); “ὡς λέοντε συννόμω” S.Ph.1436; of wives, “αἱ δὲ ς. τἄξω . . τροφεῖα πορσύνουσ᾽ ἀεί” Id.OC340; of a paramour, Id.El. 600; of a lioness, A.R.4.1339; “θήλεια καὶ ἄρρην οἷον σύννομοι ἴτωσαν εἰς τὸν οἶκον” Pl.Lg.925c, cf. 943b; of certain tunnies, ἐστον κατὰ τοὺς λύκους συννόμω prob. in Ael.NA15.3 (εἰς τὸν . . σύννομον codd.).
II. of things, kindred, correspondent, [“τέχναι] ὅσαι σύννομοι” Pl.Plt.287b, cf. 289b; “ἤθη” Id.Lg.930a; “ἄστρον” Id.Ti.42b; φωνή, ὀσμή, D.H.1.39; λίθοι ς. stones cut so as to fit, ashlar, Plb.8.37.1, Str.5.3.8, 17.1.48.
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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