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συμμένω ,
A.hold together, keep together, “αἴτιον τοῦ ἓν εἶναι καὶ συμμένειν” Arist.Metaph.1077a24; of an army, Th.7.80, Isoc.4.148, D.8.46; of two states, “οὕτω . . μάλιστα συμμένοιμεν ἄν” X.HG7.1.2; of persons, PAmh.2.124.1 (ii A.D.).
2. of treaties or agreements, hold, stand fast, continue, “συμβάσιες ἰσχυραὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσι συμμένειν” Hdt.1.74; “ξυνέμεινεν ἡ ὁμαιχμία” Th.1.18; “ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐς τοῦτο ξυνέμεινεν” Id.8.73; “χαλεπὸν φιλίαν συμμένειν” Pl.Phdr.232b, cf. Arist.EN1133a12; τῷ ἀντιποιεῖν . . ς. ἡ πόλις ib.1132b34: cf. “μένω” 1.5.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Demosthenes, On the Chersonese, 46
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.74
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 148
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 232b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.80
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.18
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 7.1.2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.73
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