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σύντροφ-ος , ον,
A.brought up together with, τινι Hdt.1.99; “ὦ Κύπριδι . . καὶ Χάρισι . . ξύντροφε Διαλλαγή” Ar.Ach.989 (lyr.); also c. gen., foster-brother, “οἱ μόθακες ς. Λακεδαιμονίων” Phylarch.43 J.; ς. τοῦ βασιλέως Σελεύκου, etc., OGI247.2 (Delos, ii B.C.), al., Plb.5.9.4, 32.15.10; and in Com. phrase, “τηγάνων ς. μειρακύλλια” Eub.75.2; freq. of domestic animals, “ς. τοῖσι ἀνθρώποισι” Hdt.2.65; τοῖς θηρίοις πόθος τῶν ς. X.Mem.2.3.4; “ἔστι [λέων] πρὸς τὰ ς. καὶ συνήθη σφόδρα φιλοπαίγμων” Arist.HA 629b11; κυνίδιον ς. Plu.Aem.10; “ὄρνις” Luc.Lex.6: abs., τὸ ς. γένος bred up with me, says Ajax of the Athenians, S.Aj.861; of like habits with oneself, Pl.Lg.949c:—freq. in Inscrr. and Pap., SIG798.6(Cyzicus, i A.D.), etc.; Ζωτίκῳ συντρόφῳ his foster-brother, CIG 3109 (Teos), cf. 3142.3 (Smyrna), 3268 (ibid.), BGU1058.50 (i B.C.); cf. συντρόφη:—τὸ ς., = συντροφία 1.1, Arist.EN1161b34.
2. generally, living with, “τοῖς φονεῦσι” S.El.1190; ξ. ὄμμα the eye or presence of a companion, Id.Ph.171 (lyr.); used to a thing, ς. ὤν (sc. ἀνάγκαις) E.IT1119 (lyr.); “γυμνασίῳ” Plu.2.130c; φιλοσοφίᾳ, πενίᾳ, κολακείᾳ, Luc.Nigr.12,15: c. gen., “ς. τῆς τόλμης” Plb.1.74.9; ἁρμονίης, μέθας, AP7.26,423 (both Antip. Sid.).
3. of things, habitual, “νόσημα” Hp.Aër.7; ἢν μὴ ἐκ παιδίου σύντροφος ᾖ [ἡ νοῦσος] Id.Morb.Sacr.10; “οὐκέτι συντρόφοις ὀργαῖς ἔμπεδος” S.Aj.639 (lyr.); τὰ ξ. everyday evils, Th.2.50; τὸ τῆς πάλαι ποτὲ φύσεως ς. the congenital property of nature, Pl.Plt.273b; πῦρ τὸ ς. innate heat, Hp.de Arte12; ς. τινί natural to, “χυμῷ” Id.Off.11; “φάρμακον ς. ἐπιτέγξει” Id.Fract.29; “ἡ ς. τισὶ φιλοπρωτία” Phld.Rh.2.158 S.; τὸ ἐναντιώτατον [πρόσωπον] οὐδὲ ς. ἡμῖν ὑπάρχον the opposite face (that of the dying patient) not being familiar to us, Gal.18(2).25; τῇ Ἑλλάδι πενίη αἰεὶ ς. Hdt.7.102: c. gen., κτύπος φωτὸς σύντροφος his habitual cry, S.Ph.203 (lyr.), cf. σύντροπος. Adv., -φως ἔχειν c. dat., to be suitable, Hp.Fract.32.
II. Act., joint-herd, fellow-herdsman, “τῆς ἀγέλης” Pl.Plt.267e.
2. τοῖς ὕδασι ς. τῶν ἀναβλαστανόντων assisting in nourishing . . , Pl.Lg.845d.
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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