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συμβι^β-άζω , Causal of συμβαίνω,
A.bring together: Pass., to be put together, to be knit together, framed, “ἔκ τινος” Ep.Eph.4.16, Ep.Col.2.19.
2. metaph., bring to terms, reconcile, Hdt.1.74; ς. τινά τινι reconcile one to another, Th.2.29; ς. [τινὰς] εἰς τὸ μέσον, as mediator, Pl.Prt.337e: abs., bring about an agreement, IG12.57.24.
II. put together, compare, examine, “τὰ λεγόμενα” Pl.Hp.Mi.369d; [τὰς μεταφοράς] Phld.Rh.1.174 S.; “ς. περί τινων ὃ ἕκαστον εἴη” Pl.R.504a (though Timaeus here expld. it intr. agree).
III. elicit a logical consequence, infer (cf. “συμβαίνω” 111.3 b), Arist.Top.155a25, SE181a22; “ἔκ τινων” Id.Top.161b37; ς. ὅτι . . ib. 154a36; ς. ὡς . . Id.Rh.Al. 1426a37, 1441a6; ς. πότερον . . Id.Top.158b27; πῶς . . Phld.Rh.1.172 S. (Pass.); ὅτι . . Act.Ap.9.22: c. acc. et inf., Ocell.3.3:—Pass., συμβιβασθέντος when the conclusion has been drawn, v.l. in Arist.SE 179a30.
2. teach, instruct, “συμβιβάσω ὑμᾶς ἃ ποιήσετε” LXX Ex. 4.15; συμβιβάσεις τοὺς υἱούς σου ib.De.4.9, cf. Is.40.14, 1 Ep.Cor.2.16.
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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