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συναλ-είφω ,
A.clog up, “γῆ ὑγρὰ . . , ἐὰν ξηρανθῇ, ς. τὸ σπέρμα” Thphr.CP3.23.1:—Pass., τὰ μὲν ἄνω [τῆς γῆς] συναληλίφθαι διὰ τοὺς ὄμβρους have been clogged up, turned into impermeable clay, Arist.Mete.365a21; coalesce, “-ομένων ἀλλήλοις τῶν περάτων” Simp.in Ph.892.9, cf.931.17.
b. anoint thoroughly, Sor.1.46, 64, al.; rub in thoroughly, Dsc.Eup.1.233.
c. metaph., gloss over, whitewash, minimize, “τἀγαθὰ μὲν ὑπερεπαινεῖν, τὰ δὲ φαῦλα συναλείφειν” Arist.Rh.1383b33.
2. Gramm., unite two syllables into one, D.H.Comp.22, etc.:—Pass., coalesce, of two syllables, Id.Dem. 38; cf. συναλιφή.
II. assist in anointing, τινα Plu.Pomp.73, cf. Phld.Vit.p.29J.
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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    • Plutarch, Pompey, 73
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