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συνέπομαι , fut.
A.“-έψομαι” Pl.Ti.53c: aor. -εσπόμην (v.infr.):—follow along with, accompany, σὺν δ᾽ ὁ θρασὺς εἵπετ᾽ Ὀδυσσεύς (where however σύν may be an Adv.) Od.10.436, cf. Hdt.7.39, Th.1.60, X.An.3.1.2, etc.; “ς. τινί” A.Ag.955, Hdt.5.47, Thphr.Vent.47, etc.; ποίμναις . . συνειπόμην used to follow the flocks, i.e. tend them, S.OT1125; οὔ σοι τῷ βίῳ ξυνέσπετο (thy fortunes) remained not constant to thy life, ib.1523 (troch.); ταῦρος ἄντυγι ξ. kept pace with, it, E.Hipp. 1231; τῷ χρόνῳ ς. Pl.Lg.721c.
2. comply or be in accordance with, τῷ νόμῳ συνεπόμενος ib.916d; “τοῖς ἀποβαίνουσιν” Arist.EN1127a4; “μετὰ δεδοκιμασμένου μὴ ξυνέπεσθαι ἐθέλειν” Th.3.38; τῇ τῶν μελιττῶν ἡδονῇ ς. ministering to the taste of the bees, Pl.Lg.843d.
3. of things, μουσικῇ συνεπόμεναι τέχναι the arts attendant on music, Id.Phlb.56c; τὰ τούτοις συνεπόμενα the consequences of these, Id.Lg. 679e, cf. 706a, Ti.52d: also c. gen., “ὁπόσα τούτων συνεπόμενα εἴπομεν” Id.Lg.899c.
4. ς. τῷ λόγῳ follow the argument to its consequences, ib.695c: abs., συνέπομαι I follow, i.e. understand, you, Id.Sph. 238e; “συνέψεσθε” Id.Ti.53c.
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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