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b. in literary sense, composition, ἐποποιικὸν ς. [πραγμάτων] Arist.Po.1456a11; λυρικὰ ς. SIG660.3 (Delph., ii B.C.); “τέχνη ἐστὶ ς. ἐκ καταλήψεων συγγεγυμνασμένων” Zeno Stoic.1.21, cf. Arr.Epict.1.20.5; of the syllogism, S.E.P.2.173.

c. = σύστασις B. 11.2, Arist.GA758b3.

2. organized government, constitution, Pl.Lg. 686b, Arist.EN1168b32; “ς. δημοκρατίας” Plb.2.38.6, cf. 6.10.14; τὸ ἐκ θεῶν καὶ σοφῶν ς. Diog.Bab.Stoic.3.241; confederacy, “ς. τῶν Ἀχαιῶν” Plb.2.41.15, cf. 9.28.2; τὸ Ἀμφικτιονικὸν ς. SIG761 A 16 (Delph., i B.C.), Delph.3(1).480.16; band of partisans, J.AJ20.9.4; ς. τοῦ γένους ἡμῶν, of a Jewish community, Id.Ap.1.7:—it seems to have meant also a company or guild, CIG2508 (Cos, Dor. σύστα-μα ), 2562 (Hierapytna), 2699 (Mylasa); or a committee, τῆς γερουσίας ib.2930 (Tralles).

3. body of soldiers, corps, usu. of a definite number, like τάγμα, σύνταγμα, ς. μισθοφόρων, ἱππέων, etc., Plb.1.81.11, 30.25.8, etc.; but τὸ τῆς φάλαγγος ς. the phalanx itself, Id.5.53.3.

b. a boat's crew, Alciphr.1.8.

4. generally,flock, herd, Plb.12.4.10; “τὰ βασιλικὰ ς. τῶν ἱπποτροφιῶν” Id.10.27.2.

5. college of priests or magistrates, Id.21.13.11, Str.17.1.29, etc.; of the Roman Senate, Plu. Rom.13, cf. Lib.Or.11.146.

6. in Music, system of intervals, scale, Pl.Phlb.17d; ς. ἐναρμόνια, ὀκτάχορδα, Aristox.Harm.p.2 M., cf. Ph.1.10, Plu.2.1142f, Cleonid.Harm.1.

b. strain, Jul.Caes. 315c.

7. in Metre, metrical system, as in Anapaestics, Heph. Poë.3.

8. Medic., accumulation of sediment, Hp.Epid.7.83; τὰ τῶν ὑδάτων ς. LXX Ge.1.10 (v.l. συστέματα), cf. Ezek.Exag.134, Sotion p.183 W.

9. Medic., the pulse-beats taken collectively, Gal.9.279.

10. machine, apparatus, Apollod.Poliorc.138.13.--The word first occurs in Hp. and Pl., but is chiefly used in later Prose.

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 (20):
- Aristotle, Poetics, 1456a.11
- Bacchylides, Epinicians, 11.2
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 20.9.4
- Plato, Laws, 686b
- Plato, Philebus, 17d
- Plato, Epinomis, 991e
- Strabo, Geography, 17.1.29
- Flavius Josephus, Against Apion, 1.7
- Polybius, Histories, 10.27.2
- Polybius, Histories, 12.4.10
- Polybius, Histories, 1.81.11
- Polybius, Histories, 21.13.11
- Polybius, Histories, 2.38.6
- Polybius, Histories, 2.41.15
- Polybius, Histories, 30.25.8
- Polybius, Histories, 5.53.3
- Polybius, Histories, 6.10.14
- Polybius, Histories, 9.28.2
- Old Testament, Genesis, 1.10
- Plutarch, Romulus, 13

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