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συγγιγνώσκω , Ion. and later Gr. συγγι_ν- : fut.
A.“συγγνώσομαι” E. Ion 1440, etc.: aor. 2 “συνέγνων” A.Supp.215, etc.: pf. συνέγνωκα:— think with, agree with, τινι X.Cyr.7.2.27; “μοι ταῦτα” Is.8.38; μετὰ πολλῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ξυνέγνωσαν shared the error with them, Th.8.24: abs., consent, agree, Hdt.4.5, Th.2.60:—Med., Hdt.3.99.
b. come to agreement legally, “ἀμφὶ τὰν δαῖσιν” Leg.Gort.5.46, cf. PGnom.169 (ii A.D.); of the parties to a treaty, SIG56.33 (Argos, v B.C.).
2. later, to be privy to a thing, join in a plot with, τινι App.BC2.6: c. acc., “τὴν ἐπιβουλήν” D.C.44.13; “τὴν φυγήν” Cat.Cod.Astr.1.98; οἱ συνεγνωκότες conspirators, App.BC2.5.
II. ς. ἑαυτῷ to be conscious, with part. in nom., “ς. καὶ αὐτοὶ σφίσιν ὡς ἠδικηκότες” Lys.9.11; “παθόντες ἂν ξυγγνοῖμεν ἡμαρτηκότες” S.Ant.926; ς. ἑαυτοῖς κακῶς βουλευόμενοι (as v.l. for -οις) D.H.2.55: with part. in dat., “ς. αὐτοῖσι ἡμῖν οὐ ποιήσασι ὀρθῶς” Hdt.5.91, cf. D.H.3.60:—Med., “συνεγινώσκετο ἑωυτῷ οὐκέτι εἶναι δυνατός” Hdt.3.53.
2. acknowledge, own, confess, τι Id.4.3; “οὐχ ἧσσον ταῦτα ἐκείνου” Th.7.73: c. acc. et inf., “συγγνόντες ποιέειν σε δίκαια” Hdt.1.89, cf. 91: c. dat. et inf., “οὔ οἱ ς. λέγειν ἀληθέα” Id.4.43; also “ς. ὡς . . ” Pl.Lg.717d: abs., confess one's error, “νῦν συγγνοὺς χρήσομαι τῇ ἐκείνου γνώμῃ” Hdt.7.13, cf. 9.122:— Med., οὔτε συγγινωσκόμενοι (sc. τοῦτο) Id.5.94, cf. 6.92: c. inf., οὐ συνεγινώσκετο αὐτὸς . . εἶναι αἴτιος ib.61, cf. 1.45, 4.126, 5.86: c. acc. et inf., Id.6.140.
3. ἡ συνεγνωσμένη ζωή life as generally understood, opp. οὐσιώδης, Dam.Pr.139; so “θάνατος ὁ -σμένος” Porph. Sent.9; τὰ κατ᾽ αἴσθησιν -σμένα ib.38; “τῶν -σμένων τοῖς πολλοῖς” Syrian.in Metaph.26.14.
4. recognize, τινα Arch.Pap.1.219 (Ptolemaic).
III. collect or conclude from premisses, “εὖ γε ξυνέβαλεν αὔτ᾽: ἀτὰρ δῆλόν γ᾽ ἀφ᾽ οὗ ξυνέγνω” Ar.Eq.427; “ἐκ θεσφάτων ὅτι . . ” D.H. 4.4.
IV. have a fellow-feeling with another: hence, make allowance for him, excuse, pardon, S.El.257, E.Ion 1440, X.Cyr.5.1.13; τινι S. Tr.279, E.El.1105, etc.; “ς. τινὶ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν” Id.Andr.840, cf. A. Supp.215 (where εὐγνώη codd.); “δημοκρατίαν αὐτῷ τῷ δήμῳ συγγιγνώσκω” X.Ath.2.20; “αὐτοῖς τῆς ἐπιθυμίας” Pl.Euthd.306c; “βαρβάροις ὅτι . . ” Id.Mx.244b; “ξ. εἰ . . ” Ar.V.959; also “ς. τοῖς εἰρημένοις” E.El. 348, cf. Pl.Smp.218b; “κλοπαῖς” E.IT1400, cf. Ar.Eq.1299 (lyr.); “ς. ἡμῖν τοῖς λελεγμένοις” E.Hel.82:—Med., A.Supp.216, Hdt.7.12, Democr.253.
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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