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συγγέν-εια , ἡ,
A.kinship, E.IA 492, Th.3.65, etc.; “πρὸς συγγενείας καὶ κηδεστίας” X.HG2.4.21; ἡ πρώτη ς. primary kinship, Epicur. Sent.V at.61: c. gen., kin, relationship, with or to another, ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ ς. Pl.Prt.322a; διὰ τὴν τοῦ Ἡρακλέους ς. Id.Ly.205c: c. dat., κατὰ τὴν αὑτῶν ἑκατέροις ς. with either of them, Id.Plt.307d; ς. ἔχειν τινί ib. 257d; ἡ πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας ς. Isoc.6.18; ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ς. Id.4.43, etc.: not properly applied to the relation of parents and children (v. “συγγενής” 11.1 b), “γένος γάρ, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ συγγένεια, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν” Is.8.33 (but cf. D.S. 13.20).
2. ties of kindred, family connexion, family influence, Pl.R.491c, Smp. 178c; of the relation between Athens and Thebes, Decr. ap. D.18.186.
3. metaph., “κατὰ ς. τῆς μορφῆς” Arist.HA539a22; ἡ πρὸς τὸ . . ἱερὸν πῦρ ς. [παντὸς πυρός] Plu.2.702f; “ὤτων καὶ γλώττης” Luc.Herc.5; of metals, Zos.Alch. p.197B.
4. congenital character of disease, Hp.Mul.2.125.
II. kinsfolk, family, E.Or.733 (troch.), Men.923.1; of a single kinsman, E.Or.1233: collectively, kinsfolk, kinsmen, Id.Tr.754; ἡ Περικλέους ὅλη οἰκία ἢ ἄλλη ς. Pl.Grg.472b, cf. Lg.627c, Ev.Luc. 1.61: pl., families, D.25.87; ἡ ς. ἡ Ἀγανιτέων clan, BCH46.397 (Mylasa), cf. Michel 476.9 (Olymus).
2. of animals, kind, species, “παρὰ τὰς ς. συνδυάζεσθαι” Arist.HA566a26: generally, kind, class, Id.APo.76a9, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.39.
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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