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συμφων-έω ,
A.sound together, be in harmony or unison (cf. συμφωνία）“, ἐκ πασῶν μία ἁρμονία συμφωνεῖ” Pl.R.617b, cf. Thphr.Sens.85, Arist.Pr.919b2, Ion Eleg.3; of reed-tongues, to be of the same quality, Thphr.HP4.11.7; κιθαρισταὶ ς. Callix.2; cf. “συμφωνία” 111:—Pass., τὰ συμφωνούμενα consonants (lit. things which are sounded with vowels), D.H.Dem.43.
II. metaph., harmonize with, “ποῖα ποίοις ς. τῶν γενῶν” Pl.Sph.253b, cf. Phd.101d, Arist.EN1107a32; “ς. τοῖς εἰρημένοις” Pl.R.398c; “τὰ ἔργα οὐ ς. τοῖς λόγοις” Id.La.193e; συμφωνοῦντα τοῖς ἔργοις in harmony with practical experience, Gal.19.217; “ἐπιθυμίαι οὐ ς. ἀλλήλαις” Isoc.5.87; “οὐ συμφωνοῦσι . . φροντίδες μακαριότητι” Epicur.Ep.1p.28U.; also “ταῦτα πρὸς ἄλληλα ς. συμφωνίαν τὴν ἀρίστην” Arist.Pol.1334b10; hold or express the same opinions, “ταῦτα συμφωνοῦσι πάντες” Thphr.CP6.9.2; “ἔντισι” Pl.Phdr.263b; περί τινος or τινων, Democr.107, D.H.2.47:—Med., Thphr.CP1.1.1:—Pass., to be agreed to, “παρὰ πᾶσι” D.S.1.20; “εἰ συνεφωνεῖτο πάντα τοῖς γράψασι περὶ τροφῆς” Gal.6.454, cf. 15.107: c. inf., “ἡ ἔφοδος ς. γενέσθαι” D.H.1.74: impers., “τὴν ἁρπαγὴν γεγονέναι συμπεφώνηται” D.S.5.69, cf. Gal.6.391; “ς. ὅτι . . ” D.S.1.26.
2. make an agreement or bargain with any one, “ἰδίᾳ ς. πρὸς αὐτούς” PCair.Zen.302.13 (iii B.C.); συμφωνήσας Ἡρακλείδης μετὰ Θοτέως ib.330.2 (iii B.C.); “περί τινος” Plb.2.15.5; ς. τινὶ δηναρίου for a denarius, Ev.Matt.20.13:—Pass., “συνεφωνήθη ὑμῖν πειράσαι” Act.Ap.5.9; ὥστε . . D.S.14.26; τὸ συμφωνηθέν the agreement, Id.30.19; “τὰ συμφωνηθέντα” IG42(1).77.20 (Epid., ii B.C.); τὰ εἴκοσι τάλαντα τὰ συμφωνηθέντα ib.22.844.9 (iii B.C.); “ἀπέχω τὴν συμπεφωνημένην αὐτοῦ τιμήν” BGU1643.20 (ii A.D.).
3. unite for a bad purpose, conspire, “τοῖς πένησι ἐπὶ τοὺς μέσους” Arist.Pol.1297a1.
III. agree in saying, “ὡς πάντα καλῶς κεῖται” Pl.Lg.634e; “ὅτι οὐκ ἀσφαλές ἐστι” Arist.Mir.838b34.
IV. to be satisfactory, “συμφωνεῖ μοι πάντα, ὡς πρόκειται” PAmh.2.149.22 (vi A.D.), cf. PLips. 26.13 (iv A.D.), etc.
2. of remedies, to be suitable, Archig. ap. Aët.9.35, Gal.11.806.
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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