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συλλα^β-ή , ἡ, (συλλαμβάνω IV)
A.conception, pregnancy, only in Men. 1085.
2. grip, hold, in wrestling, metaph., Simp. in Cael.354.5; so perh. mental grasp, participation, Phld.Mus.p.103 K. (pl.).
II. Act., that which holds together, συλλαβαὶ πέπλων, i.e. a girdle, A. Supp.457.
2. Pass., that which is held together, esp. of several letters taken together so as to form one sound, syllable, “βοᾷ . . γραμμάτων ἐν συλλαβαῖς” Id.Th.468; ἄφωνα καὶ φωνοῦντα (sic codd.) “συλλαβάς τε θείς” E.Fr.578.2, cf. Pl.Tht.202b, Gal.15.6, etc.; γράψαντος τὰς αὐτὰς ς. ἅσπερ Κτησιφῶν νῦν γέγραφε verbatim et literatim, D.18.83; “ς. βραχεῖα καὶ μακρά” Arist.Cat.4b33, cf. Zeno Stoic.1.70, Phld.Po.2.15, etc.
3. συλλαβαί,= Lat. literae, a letter, Cod.Just.1.1.7 Prooem., Men.Prot.p.41 D., Sammelb.7438.5 (vi A.D.).
4. pl., letters of the alphabet, Luc.Jud.Voc. 2,8.
5. pl.,= apices, Gloss.
III. in Music, the perfect fourth, Philol.6, PTeb.694.25 (iii B.C.), Nicom. Harm.9, Aristid.Quint.1.8.
IV. Arith., sum of two or more numbers, Theol.Ar.54.
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, Seven Against Thebes, 468
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 457
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 83
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 202b
    • Lucian, Judicium vocalium, 2
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