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συγκερ-άννυ_μι or συγκερ-νύω , poet. συγκεράω Nic.Al.321:—Pass., fut.
A.“συγκρα_θήσομαι” E.Ion 406: aor. 1 συνεκράθην [α_], Ion. “-εκρήθην” Hp.Vict.1.32; also “-εκεράσθην” Pl.Lg.889c: pf. συγκέκρα_μαι (v. infr.): —mix, blend with, πολλὰ [ἑνί] or εἰς ἕν, Id.Cra.424d, Ti.68d; λύπῃ τὴν ἡδονὴν ς. temper pleasure by a mixture of pain, Id.Phlb.50a; “τὸ πικρὸν μέλιτι” AP12.154 (Mel.).
2. mix together, commingle, “πολλά” Pl.Cra.424e; τὸν πέμπτον [κύαθον] AP12.168 (Posidipp.); “μέλος συγκεράσας τις ἐγχέοι” Anacreont.20.4; ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ς. make a mixture of both, Pl.R.397c.
3. attemper, compose, “ὁ θεὸς -κέρασε τὸ σῶμα” 1 Ep.Cor.12.24.
II. more freq. in Pass., to be mixed or blended with, coalesce, τινι Pl.Ti.68c; “πρὸς ἄλληλα” Id.R.618d.
2. to be commingled, blended, τὰ παλαιὰ συγκεκρ. ἄλγη the old commingled woes, A.Ch.744: c. dat., Call.Aet.3.1.75; παίδων ὅπως νῷν σπέρμα ς. E. l.c.; “ὁμοῦ τό τε φαῦλον καὶ τὸ μέσον καὶ τὸ πάνυ ἀκριβῶς . . ξυγκραθέν” Th.6.18; τῇ τῶν ἐναντίων κράσει ς. Pl.Lg.889c; “ἔκ τινων” Id.Ti.37a; “ἀπό τινων” Id.Phd.59a; “παιδεία εὐκαίρως συγκεκραμένη” D.61.43; συγκέκραται αὐτῶν ἡ φύσις, of the dog and fox, X.Cyn.3.1.
3. of friendships, to be formed by close union, “φιλίαι μεγάλαι συνεκρήθησαν” Hdt.4.152:—Med., πρός τινα φιλίην συγκεράσασθαι form a close friendship with any one, Id.7.151, cf. D.H.6.7; so τὸ ἔχθος τὸ ἐς Λακεδαιμονίους συγκεκρημένον (cj. Reiske for συγκεκυρημένον) Hdt.9.37.
4. of persons, to be closely attached to, be close friends with, “τοῖς ἡλικιώταις” X.Cyr.1.4.1.
b. to become closely acquainted with, become deeply involved in, “συγκέκραμαι δύᾳ” S.Ant.1311 (lyr.); “πολυφόρῳ συγκέκραμαι δαίμονι” Ar.Pl.853; “πενία δὲ συγκραθεῖσα δυσσεβεῖ τρόπῳ” S.Fr.944; οἴκτῳ τῷδε συγκεκραμένη deeply affected by . . , Id.Aj.895; for Tr.662 (lyr.), v. πάγχριστος.
5. of a wife, “ἀξίοις γάμοις -κερασθεῖσα” IG5(2).268.32 (Mantinea, i B.C.), cf. Plu.2.768b.
III. Med., mix with or for oneself, “εἰς μίαν πάντα ἰδέαν” Pl.Ti.35a, cf. 69d; “ς. αἰσθήσεις νῷ” Id.Lg.961e.
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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