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συνδοκέω ,
A.seem to one as to another, seem good also, “ταῦτα κἀμοὶ συνδοκεῖ” Ar.Av.811; εἴ τοι δοκεῖ σφῷν ταῦτα, κἀμοὶ ξυνδοκεῖ ib.1630, cf. Lys.167; “ξυνεδόκει τοῖς ἄλλοις ξυμμάχοις ταῦτα” Th.8.84; “ὅ τι ἂν καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις . . ξυνδοκῇ” Id.6.44; “εἰ σοὶ συνδοκεῖ ὅπερ ἐμοί” Pl.Prt. 340b; “πᾶσι συνέδοξε ταῦτα” X.Cyr.2.2.28; ἆρ᾽ οὖν σοι συνδοκεῖ μέτριος χρόνος; Pl.R.460e; “διάνοιαν ἣ ς. τοῖς πολλοῖς” Arist.Pol.1273a23; κἀμοὶ τοῦτο οὕτω περὶ αὐτοῦ ς. Pl.Sph.235b; “συνεδόκει ἡμῖν . . ταῦτα” Id.Euthd.289b: abs., συνεδόκει ib.c.
2. more freq. impers., it seems good also, “σοὶ δὲ συνδοκεῖν χρεών” E.IT71; εἰ ξυνδοκοίη τοῖσιν ἄλλοις ὀρνέοις Ar Av.197; ἢ καὶ σοὶ συνδοκεῖ οὕτως; Pl.Prt. 331b; “ς. ὅτι . . ” Id.Hp.Ma.283b: folld. by inf., X.Cyr.1.6.8; συνέδοξε . . τὸν ἐλάττονα αἱρετέον (sc. εἶναι) Pl.Ti.75c.
3. part., οὐκ ἐμοὶ -οῦντα πεπόνθατε not with my approval, D.H.6.44; but the part. is mostly used abs. like ἐξόν, παρόν, etc., συνδοκοῦν ἅπασιν ἡμῖν since we all agree, X.HG2.3.51; συνδόξαν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τῇ μητρί since the father and mother approved, Id.Cyr.8.5.28, cf. 8.1.8.
b. Plato has also part. pf. Pass., λόγος τοῖς ἐπιεικεστάτοις συνδεδογμένος in which they also agree, Lg.659d, cf. 719c, Phdr.267d; also of persons, συνδεδογμένοι τινί of like opinion with him, Numen. ap. Eus.PE 14.5.
II. apparently = δοκέω, οὕτω μοι συνέδοξεν BCH56.293 (Stobi, ii/iii A.D.).
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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