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συνεργός , όν,
A.working together, joining or helping in work, and as Subst., ὁ, ἡ, helper, E.Or.1446 (lyr.), Med.396, Pl.Chrm.173d, IPE 12.352.37 (Chersonesus, ii B.C.); in bad sense, accomplice, Th.8.92, PFay.12.10 (ii B.C.), BGU1761.8 (i B.C., pl.): c. dat. pers., E.Hipp. 523, Th.3.63, X.Cyr.8.4.17, Pl.Smp.180e, Men.Epit.83; so metaph., “ς. πλοῦτος . . κακίᾳ” Teles p.46 H.; distd. from συναίτιον, Gal. 19.393: rarely c. gen. pers., ἡμῶν τι ς. (unless ἡμῶν is partit.) Epicur.Nat.98 G.; “θεοῦ” 1 Ep.Cor.3.9: c. gen. rei, taking part in a thing, ς. τείχεος helping to make it, Pi.O.8.32; “ς. τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ γινομένων” Heraclit.75; ξ. ἀδίκων ἔργων, ἀρετᾶς, helping towards them, E.Hipp.676, Med.845 (both lyr.); ς. τινί τινος helping a person in a thing, θρήνων ἐμοὶ (prob. for θρήνοις ἐμῶν） ξ. Id.Hel.1112 (lyr.), cf. X.An.1.9.21; “ς. εἴς τι” Id.Mem.4.3.10, Smp.8.38, Ep.Col.4.11; “πρός τι” X.Mem.4.3.7; “πρὸς κακωδίαν” Thphr.Sud.8; “πρὸς τὴν τῆς πόλεως σωτηρίαν” Zeno Stoic.1.61; “ἐν μάχαις” Ar.Eq.588 (lyr.): c. inf., “ς. τῷ παιδὶ μὴ 'κπεσεῖν” E.Ion48.
2. Astrol., in co-operation, of planetary influence, Vett.Val.55.15; distd. from ὑπουργός, Serapio in Cat.Cod. Astr.8(4).226.
II. person of the same trade as another, fellowworkman, colleague, c. gen. pers., D.19.144, cf. IG12.374.87, PCair.Zen.758.8 (iii B.C.), Plu.Per.31:—in this sense some write σύνεργος, Ammon.Diff.p.126 V., Thom.Mag.p.339 R.
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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