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συγκροτ-έω ,
A.strike together, ς. τὼ χεῖρε clap the hands for joy, X.Cyr.2.2.5, Ath.10.420c; “ταῖς χερσίν” LXXNu.24.10; smite them together in grief or anger, Luc.Somn.14; ς. τοὺς ὀδόντας ὑπὸ τρόμου, ὑπὸ τοῦ κρύους, Id.JTr.45, Cat.20.
2. abs., clap, applaud, Polem.Call.62; join in applauding, Eun.VSp.484B.:—Pass., to be applauded, X.Smp.8.1.
II. hammer or weld together, Ar.Eq. 471; “ἀσπὶς συγκεκροτημένη” Plu.Nic.28.
2. metaph., ς. ὀνόματα weld words together into unities, Pl.Cra.409c,415d,416b; of style, λέξις συγκεκροτημένη pithy, terse, D.H.Dem.18, Isoc.2, etc.
b. knock together, compose, “ἀνάπαιστα” Luc.Symp.18; “κατηγορίαν” Id.Eun.13.
c. weld a number of men into one body, i.e. organize them, “τὸν χορόν” D.21.17; “σύνδειπνον” Plu.2.528b (Pass.); “πότον” Luc. Gall.12 (Pass.); “ξυνωμοσίαν” Id.Phal.1.4; “γάμους” Ach.Tat.2.11; esp. of military or naval forces, collect, levy, ς. δύναμιν, στράτευμα, Hdn.1.9.1, 2.14.6, cf. Aristid.2.157J.; μίαν Λάκαινάν τις ὑβρίζων κοινὸν πόλεμον “ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτὸν συγκροτεῖ” Chor.29.80 F.-R.:—Pass., “ἐκεῖνό μοι φράσον, εἰ πάλαι ξυγκροτεῖται αὐτοῖς ἡ ἔρις” Luc.JTr.33; πόλεμος . . ἐπὶ ὑπηκόους συνεκροτεῖτο was being waged against subjects, Chor.3.11 F.-R.
d. train, D.L.7.185:—Pass., ib.31: freq. in pf. part. Pass. συγκεκροτημένος, well-trained, disciplined, ναῦς συγκεκρ. X.HG6.2.12; “συγκεκροτημένοι τὰ τοῦ πολέμου” D.2.17; “εἰς πολεμικὴν ἄσκησιν” Hdn.7.2.2; “συγκεκρ. πληρώματα” Plb.1.61.3; “ἑταιρεῖαι” Plu.Lys.13.
e. ἐπιτήρει δὲ καὶ ἡμέραν καὶ ὥραν ἐν ᾗ συγκροτεῖται μάλιστα ὁ χρησμός on which the oracle works best, Astramps.Orac. p.3.
f. assist, help, συγκροτῆσε (i.e. -ῆσαι）“ τὸν εὐγενῆ Παῦλον” POxy.1872.2 (v/vi A.D.); συγκροτεῖ: . . συμπράττει, Suid.
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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    • Aristophanes, Knights, 471
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 2, 17
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