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συμπήγ-νυ_μι and συμπηγ-ύω (Arist.Resp. 472a34, Epicur.Nat.14.5):—
A.put together, construct, frame, “τάφον” E. Supp.938; “ψεύσταν λόγον” Pi.N.5.29; “στέγασμα” Pl.Ti.73d; “σύριγγα” Theoc.8.23, etc.; τινὰ ἐξ ἄλλων Epicur.l.c.; τὴν οὐσίαν ἐκ . . Plu.2.1118e:—Med., construct for oneself, “δίφρον” Critias 2.11, cf. Luc. D Deor.25.3, Am.53; “μηχανάς” App.Mith.30.
2. Pass., with pf. 2 συμπέπηγα, to be compounded, Anaxag.4, Pl.Ti.46b; of the human frame, Hp.VM20, Them.Or.21.249c.
II. make solid, congeal, condense, Il.5.902 (v. sub “ἐπείγω” 111.2); “ς. τὸ σῶμα” Arist. l.c., cf. Pl. Ti.85d:—Pass., with pf. 2, become solid, to be condensed, ib.59e,81b,91b, etc.; of calculi in the bladder, Hp.Aë.9.
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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