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συναιν-έω , fut.
A.“-αινέσω” S.El.402: aor. “-ῄνεσα” A.Ag.484 (lyr.):—consent, abs., ib.1208, S. Ph.122, El.1280 (lyr.), Pl.R.393e, etc.; ς. τισί agree with, Hdt. 5.92.ή, cf. S.El.402, Sor.1.58, al.:—Med., Inscr.Prien.85 (ii B.C.).
2. c. acc., concede, give, “Χάριν” A.Ag.484; agree upon, “πόλιν” SIG633.83 (Milet., ii B.C.): but most freq. c. Adj. neut., agree to, “ἅπερ ξυνῄνεσα” S.OC1508; “ς. ταῦτα” Id.Fr.368 (Med.), X. Cyr.4.2.47, etc.; ς. τινί τι grant, “δῶρά μοι -αίνεσον” E.Rh.172, cf. X.Cyr.8.5.20, An.7.7.31.
3. c. inf., agree or consent to do, Id.Cyr.4.4.8, 7.2.14.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 484
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.92
    • Plato, Republic, 393e
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    • Sophocles, Electra, 402
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    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 122
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