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συγ-κρούω ,
A.strike together, ς. τὼ χεῖρε clap the hands, Ar.Ra.1029; “ἀλλήλοις τὰ πλοῖα” Plu.Luc.12; “τοῖς δόρασι τὰς ἀσπίδας” Apollod.1.1.5; “τὰ σύμφωνα τῶν στοιχείων” Philostr.VS2.13.
2. metaph., bring into collision, “ὁ Φίλιππος . . πάντας συνέκρουε” D.18.19, cf. 163; ς. τινὰς ἀλλήλοις wear out by collision, Th.1.44; “ς. φίλους φίλοις καὶ τὸν δῆμον τοῖς γνωρίμοις” Arist.Pol.1313b17; “διάλυε, μὴ σύγκρουε μαχομένους φίλους” Men.Mon.122; “ς. τινὰ πρός τινα” Luc.Icar.20, etc., cf. Babr.44.4; “τὰ δοξάσματα πρὸς ἄλληλα” Iamb. ap. Stob.2.2.7; “ς. πόλεμον” D.S.12.3; ς. τι τῶν ἐκείνου πραγμάτων throw them into confusion, Isoc.4.134:— Pass., “ς. εἰς μάχην” Dosith. p.433K.
3. intr., clash, come into collision, “τὸ ἀντίπρῳρον ξυγκροῦσαι” Th.7.36; of troops, Wilcken Chr. 11.25,38 (ii B.C.); of a horse's front and hind hoofs, Arist.HA604b2; “νῆες ἀλλήλαις συγκρούουσαι” Plb.1.50.3, cf. D.S.3.51, etc.: metaph., Thphr.Char.12.14, Epicur.Nat.114G., Phld.Sign.38, Plu.Alex. 47.
II. = συγκροτέω, weld together: metaph., try to reconcile discrepancies, Str.11.7.4.
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 (15):
    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 1.1.5
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 1029
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 19
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.3
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 134
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.7.4
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 12.14
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.50.3
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 47
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.44
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.36
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 12
    • Lucian, Icaromenippus, 20
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.51
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.13
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