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συγχώννυ_μι and συγ-ύω , in earlier writers pres. inf. συγχοῦν Hdt. 4.120, X.HG3.1.18:—pf. Pass.
A.“-κέχωσμαι” Hdt.8.144:—heap with earth, cover with a mound, bank up, [τὴν σορόν] Id.1.68; ς. τὰς κρήνας, τὰ ὕδατα, fill them up with earth, Id.4.120, 140, cf. X.HG3.1.18, etc.; also of persons, ς. τοὺς ἀποσφαγέντας εἰς τάφρους bury them, D.S.19.107, cf. Plu.Alex.77.
II. demolish, “τὸ ἔρυμα” Hdt.7.225; [τὰ τείχεα καὶ τὰ οἰκήματα] Id.9.13; “τὴν ὁδόν” Id.8.71:—Pass., οἰκήματα συγκεχωσμένα ib.144; “τὰ συγχωσθέντα τῶν εὐρείπων” SIG799.7 (Cyzicus, i A.D.).
2. generally, confound, “κῦμα . . τῶν τ᾽ ἄστρων διόδους” A.Pr.1049 (anap.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1049
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.225
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.144
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.71
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.13
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.68
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.120
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.1.18
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 77
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.107
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