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συνεπι-στρέφω ,
A.turn at the same time, “τοῦ ἀτράκτου τὴν περιφοράν” Pl.R.617c:—Pass., “-ομένου τοῦ ἄξονος” Heliod. ap. Orib.49.9.27; of one being massaged, Gal.6.177.
2. help to make attentive, Plu.Num.14; πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς τὸν ἀκροατήν turn towards them also, Id.2.542c, etc.
II. twist together like strands, Pl.Ti.84d:—Pass., πρὸς ἓν τέλος συνεπιστρέφεσθαι τοῖς ἤθεσιν to be intertwined in their characters with a view to . . , Plu. Comp.Lyc.Num.4.
III. intr., turn jointly towards, “πρὸς ἀλλήλας” Id.Num.13.
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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    • Plato, Republic, 617c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 84d
    • Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, 4
    • Plutarch, Numa, 13
    • Plutarch, Numa, 14
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