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συλλέγω , aor.
A.“-έλεξα” Ar.Ra.1297, etc.: pf. “-είλοχα” D.18.308, 21.23, prob. in Dsc.Eup.2.168:—Med., fut. “-λέξομαι” Od.2.292: aor. -ελεξάμην, Ep. 3sg. “συλλέξατο” Il.18.413: pf., v. infr.:—Pass., fut. “-λεγήσομαι” Aeschin.3.100: aor. “-ελέχθην” Hdt.1.97, etc., rare in Att., Ar.Lys.526 (anap.), Pl.Lg.784a; aor. 2 -ελέγην being preferred, Ar.V.1107, Ec.116, Th.4.25, etc., and sts. in Hdt., 7.173, 9.27: pf. “-είλεγμαι” Ar.Av.294, Th.3.94, etc. (also in med. sense, X.Mem.4.2.1, Hyp.Eux.32, D.59.18); 3pl. “συνειλέχατο” J. AJ17.10.2; part. rarely -λελεγμένος, Hdt.7.26, 9.41, Ar.Ec.58, PTeb. 700.27 (ii B.C.):—bring together, collect, gather, [κτέατα] Il.18.301; “χρ]ήματα” Alc.Supp.5.12; “ἀργύριον . . τοῦ ἐπετείου οὗ αὐτοὶ ξυνελέξαμεν” IG12.301.32; χαλκία συνλέξαντες ib.393; “ξύλα” S.Fr.225; τὰ ὀστέα, τὸν λιβανωτόν, Hdt.1.68, 3.107; “ς. σφίσι φερνάς” Id.1.93; “φρύγανα” X.An.4.3.11; “βίον ἄνευ πόνου” E.El.81; “ἐράνους” D.21.184; “παρὰ τῶν φίλων ἔρανον” Antipho 2.2.9; “ἀμμώδη ἐν τῇ κύστει” Dsc.5.118, cf. Aët.15.12; ς. μονῳδίας, μέλη, compose, or rather compile, scrape together, Ar.Ra.849,1297, cf. Ach.398; “ῥήματα καὶ λόγους” D. 18.308; ς. ὕβρεις αὐτοῦ compile a list of them, Id.21.23: abs., ὁ μὲν γὰρ αὑτῷ συλλέγει collects for himself, Men.Kol.43; περιιόντα συλλέγειν to go about picking up information, D.21.36:—Med., collect for oneself, for one's own use, “ὅπλα τε πάντα λάρνακ᾽ ἐς ἀργυρέην συλλέξατο” Il.18.413, cf. Ar.Pax 1327 (an[adot ]p.), Pl.R.553c, Lg.936c, etc.; “ξυλλέγεται βίοτον” Sol.13.50:—Pass., αἷμα συλλέγεταί τινι ἐπὶ τοὺς τιτθούς gathers there, Hp.Epid.2.6.32, cf. Sor.1.55; “ἁμαρτήματα . . συνειλεγμένα” D.10.1, etc.
2. ἐκ τῆς ἀσθενείας ς. ἐμαυτόν rally myself, Pl. Ax.370e:—Med., “σύλλεξαι σθένος” E.Ph.850:—Pass., “ψυχὴν αὐτὴν εἰς αὑτὴν συλλέγεσθαι” Pl.Phd.83a.
3. Pass., come together, become customary, “ἡ πολυλογία ς. αὐτῷ” X.Cyr.1.4.3.
II. of persons, collect, get together, “στασιώτας” Hdt.1.59; “ἐγχωρίους” E.IT303; “χορόν” Antipho 6.11; “ἐκκλησίαν” X.HG3.3.8; στρατόν raise or levy an army, Th.4.77, etc.:—Med., “ἑταίρους . . συλλέξομαι” Od.2.292; “λόχον -ελέξατο” X.An.7.4.8:—Pass., come together, assemble, Hdt.1.81, 7.8, Lys. 24.19, etc.; ἐκεῖσε ς. And.1.133; εἰς ταὐτὸ ς. Pl.Lg.961a.
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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