A.“-ᾶγον” A.Th.756 (lyr.), prob. in E.IA290 (lyr.), Ep. “σύνα^γον” Il.14.448: fut. συνάξω: aor. 1 συνῆξα, Dor. “-ᾶξα” GDI1772,1791 (Delph., ii B.C.); inf. συνάξαι v.l. in Ev.Luc. 3.17; part. συνάξας f.l. for συννάξας in Hdt.7.60: but the regul. aor. is συνήγαγον: Att. pf. “συνῆχα” X.Mem.4.2.8; “συναγήοχα” Arist.Oec. 1346a28 (v.l. -γιοχ-, -γιωχ-, γειοχ-), Dsc.1.68, Iamb.VP35.254, etc.; Dor. “συναγάγοχα” Test.Epict.3.12: pf. Pass. συνῆγμαι, Dor. “-ᾶγμαι” Ti.Locr.101b.--Old Att. ξυνάγω , which Hom. also uses metri gr.:—bring together, gather together:
I. of persons, animals, etc., ἡ δὲ ξυνάγουσα γεραιὰς νηόν . . to the temple, Il.6.87, cf. Hdt.2.111, 3.150, etc.; “ἐς ἕνα Χῶρον ς. μυριάδα ἀνθρώπων” Id.7.60; “ἔνθα ποτ᾽ Ὀρφεὺς σύναγεν δένδρεα μούσαις, σύναγεν θῆρας” E.Ba.563 (lyr.); ποίμνας Ὀλύμπου ς. S.Fr.522; Ἕλληνας εἰς ἓν καὶ Φρύγας ς. E.Or.1640, cf. Ar.Lys.585 (anap.); ς. ἐς ὀλίγον crowd them into a narrow compass, Th.2.84; “ς. εἰς ταὐτόν” Pl.Phdr.256c, cf. Tht.194b; εἰς ἕν, εἰς μίαν ἀρχήν, Arist.Pol.1280b13, 1299b13; much like συνοικίζω, ib. 1285b7.
2. bring together for deliberation or festivity, “βουλήν” Batr.134; “δικαστήριον” Hdt.6.85; “τοὺς στρατηγούς” Id.8.59; “ἐκκλησίαν τινὸς ἕνεκα” Th.2.60; ἔς τι, περί τινος, Id.1.120, X.HG7.1.27; “οἱ νόμοι ς. ὑμᾶς, ἵνα . . ” D.19.1; “τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τὸν δῆμον” Arist.Ath.43.3; ς. πανηγύρεις, ἑταιρείας, συσσίτια, etc., Isoc.4.1,79, Pl.R.365d, Lg.625e, etc.; “ς. ἔρανον Μηνὶ Τυράννῳ” IG3.74.21, cf. GDI1772, 1791 (Delph., ii B.C.):—Pass., “πανήγυρις . . συναγομένη” SIG888.129 (Scaptopara, iii A.D.): abs., hold a club dinner or meeting, Thphr.Char.30.18, and so perh. OGI130.5 (Egypt, ii B.C.); “ς. ἀπὸ συμβολῶν” Diph.43.28; “ἔλεγον "συνάγειν" τὸ μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων πίνειν” Ath.8.365c, cf. Sophil.4.2, Men.158, Hsch.; νυνὶ . . συνάγουσι they are at dinner, Men.Epit. 195.
3. in hostile sense, ξ. Ἄρηα, ἔριδα Ἄρηος, ὑσμίνην, join battle, begin the battle-strife, etc., Il.2.381, 5.861, 14.448, al.; πόλεμον ς. Isoc.4.84.
b. match, pit two warriors one against the other, A.Th. 508: hence intr., ἐς μέσσον ς. engage in fight, Theoc.22.82; “ς. τινί” Plb.11.18.4; “εἰς Χεῖρας” Plu.Publ.9.
c. collect or levy soldiers, X.HG 3.1.5, etc.; collect slaves for work, PMich.Zen.62.15 (iii B.C.).
4. bring together, join in one, unite, “ἄμφω ἐς φιλότητα” h.Merc.507; “παράνοια ς. νυμφίους φρενώλεις” A.Th.756 (lyr.); τὸ κακὸν σέ τε κἀμὲ ς. E. Hel.644 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Ach.991 (lyr.); “ἀνθρώπους εἰς κηδείαν” X.Mem.2.6.36; γυναῖκα καὶ ἄνδρα, of Isis, IG12(5).14.20 (Ios, iii A.D.): hence γάμους ς. contract marriages, X.Smp.4.64.
5. bring together, make friends of, reconcile, Emp. ap. Arist.Metaph.1000b11, D.58.42, 59.45; bring persons together in works of fiction, “Κρέοντα καὶ Τειρεσίαν” Pl. Ep.311b.
6. ς. ἑαυτόν collect oneself, Plu.Phil.20.
7. lead with one, receive, “ς. εἰς τὸν οἶκον” LXX 2 Ki.11.27, cf. Jd.19.15; “ξένος ἤμην καὶ συνηγάγετέ με” gave hospitality to . . , Ev.Matt.25.35:—Pass., Act.Ap.11.26.
II. of things, “σύναγεν νεφέλας” Od.5.291, cf. Thphr.Vent.42; “ἵνα οἱ σὺν φόρτον ἄγοιμι” Od.14.296; “κήρυκες ὅρκια πιστὰ θεῶν σύναγον” Il.3.269; “τὰ Χρήματα ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν” X.An.6.2.8; τὸ ἔλαιον ἐν ἀγγείοις interpol. in Hdt.6.119; “τὰς εἰσφοράς” Arist.Pol. 1314b15, cf. PHib.1.157 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.315.1 (iii B.C.), etc.; “καρπόν” Plb.12.2.5; “κόγχον καὶ κύαμον” Crates Theb.7; τρυγᾶν καὶ ς. PRev.Laws 24.14 (iii B.C.); τὴν μήκωνα ς. Sammelb.4305 (iii B.C.); “ς. εἰς μίαν γωνίαν τὸ ἀποκτένισμα τοῦ στιππύου” PCair.Zen.176.41 (iii B.C.); “συναγαγεῖν καὶ συναθροῖσαι τὸ θερμόν” Thphr.Ign.17; “εἰς ἀποθήκας” Ev.Matt.6.26; “κοινὸν ς. τὸν βίον” Pl.Plt.311c; “ς. ἐκ δικαίων τὸν βίον” Men.Mon.196; of an artist, “ς. τὰ κάλλιστα ἐκ πολλῶν” X. Mem.3.10.2, cf. Pl.R.488a.
b. of a historical writer, “ς. τὰς πράξεις” Isoc.12.252, 15.45; συνηγμένος concise in speech, D.L.4.33; of an anthologist, ὅλας ῥήσεις εἰς ταὐτὸν ς. Pl.Lg.811a; ς. εἰς ταὐτὸν τὰ κάλλιστα τοῖς αἰσχίστοις jumble together, identify, Aeschin.2.145, cf. Pl.Sph.251d; “Σειληνὸν καὶ Μαρσύαν . . εἰς ἕν” Str.10.3.14.
2. draw together, so as to make the extremities meet, τὰ κέρεα (of an army) Hdt.6.113; Αἴας δὲ . . δεξιὸν κέρας πρὸς τὸ λαιὸν (dub. l.) “ξυνᾶγε” E.IA 290 (lyr.); “ς. ἐς τετράγωνον τάξιν τοὺς ὁπλίτας” Th.4.125, cf. 1.63, etc.; ς. τὰ τέρματα, of two rivers which gradually approach one another, Hdt.4.52; ς. ἑαυτόν, of a snake, Arist.HA594a19; ς. τοὺς πόρους, of a styptic, Thphr.Od.36; ς. τὰν ἁφάν, τὰν γεῦσιν, Ti.Locr. 101c; συναγμένα [φωνά] ib.101b.
b. draw together, narrow, contract, [τὴν διώρυχα] Hdt.7.23; πρῴρην ς. bring it to a point, Id.1.194; τὸν . . Χρόνον ὡς εἰς μικρότατον ς. D.Prooem.36; “τὴν πόλιν” Plb.5.93.5, etc.; “ἐκ μεγάλας δαπάνας εἰς μικρόν” IG12(2).645a.16 (Nesos, iv B.C.):—Pass., “συνάγεται καὶ διοίγεται ὁ φάρυγξ” Arist.PA664b25; “εἰς ὀξὺ συνῆχθαι” Id.HA496a19; “εἰς μικρόν” Id.Mete.354a7, Democr. ap. Thphr.Ign.52; εἰς στενόν Didym. ap. Ath.11.477f; “ποτήριον συνηγμένον εἰς μέσον” Callix.3; συνῆκται ἡ κοιλία is pinched in, drawn in, Archig. ap. Aët.6.3; “ἐπὶ στενὸν συνάγεται τὸ στόμιον” Sor.1.9.
c. “ς. τὰς ὀφρῦς” S.Fr.1121, Ar.Nu.582 (troch.), Antiph.218.2; “ἐπισκύνιον” Ar.Ra.823 (lyr.); “τὰ ὄμματα” Arist.Pr.958a21; ς. τὰ βλέφαρα close the eyelids, ib.38, Gal.18(2).62; but ς. τὰ ὦτα prick the ears, of dogs, X.Cyn.3.5, cf. Ar.Eq.1348; “τὰ σκέλη πρὸς ἄλληλα” Sor.1.101, cf. 2.61 (Pass.), Diocl.Fr.141.
d. metaph., “ς. τινὰς ἐς κίνδυνον ἔσχατον” App.Hann.60; συνάγεσθαι to be straitened, afflicted, λιμῷ, σιτοδείᾳ, Plb.1.18.7,10; συνάγεσθαι τοῖς Χαρακτῆρσι to become pinched in its features, Sor.1.108; but πεφυκότος τοῦ θερμοῦ συνάγειν καὶ τονοῦν τὴν γαστέρα pull the stomach together, Gal.15.195; τὰ στύφοντα ἐδέσματα ς. καὶ σφίγγει τὰ σώματα ib.462, cf. 6.90, al.
3. conclude from premisses, infer, prove, Arist.Rh.1357a8, 1395b25, Metaph.1042a3, Pol.1299b12, Phld.Sign.12, al.; “ς. ὅτι . . ” Arist.Rh.1377b6, cf. A.D. Conj.249.7: c. inf., Luc.Hist.Conscr.16: c. gen. abs., ς. ὥς τινος γενομένου form a conclusion of his having been . . , Arist.Pol.1274a25; συνάγοντες λόγοι cogent arguments, Stoic.2.77, Arr.Epict.1.7.12: also, sum up numbers, D.H.4.6, Ptol.Alm.9.10, Dioph.3.6, al.; also, obtain them by multiplication, ὁ συνηγμένος [ἀριθμὸς] ἐκ τῶν κβ καὶ πθ the product . . , Aristarch.Sam.13, cf. Papp.22.7, Paul.Al.K.1; of division, give a quotient, Dioph.2.9; of an integer, yield a fraction (9 = 72/8), ib.12; of any calculation, yield a result, Id.1.25, al. (Pass.).
