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συντήκ-ω ,
A.fuse into one mass, [“πῦρ] συντῆκον τὴν γῆν” Antipho Soph.30; weld together, “ὑμᾶς ς. καὶ συμφυσῆσαι εἰς τὸ αὐτό” Pl.Smp.192d; τὰ μόρια γόμφοις ς. Id.Ti.43a; “συμμιγνύειν καὶ ς. τὰς ψυχάς” Plu.2.156c.
2. dissolve, liquefy, “ς. καὶ διακρίνειν” Thphr.CP6.13.2; melt down, “στέαρ” PRev.Laws 50.17 (iii B.C.); consume, “αὐτὰ ἑαυτά” Arist.Long.466b29.
3. metaph., cause to waste or pine away, “ἐμὲ συντήξουσι νύκτες ἡμέραι τε δακρύοις” E.IA398 (troch.); “τὸν πάντα συντήκουσα δακρύοις χρόνον” Id.Med.25.
II. Pass. συντήκομαι, aor. 1 συνετήχθην, aor. 2 συνετάκην [α^]: intr. pf. Act. συντέτηκα:—to be fused into one mass, “συγχυθέντων καὶ συντακέντων” Plu.2.395c; “ᾠοῦ λέκιθος τούτοις . . διὰ μέλιτος . . συντακεῖσα” Sor.2.13; “ἄλειμμα τὸ δι᾽ ἐλαίου . . , συντακέντος ὀλίγου κηροῦ” Id.1.121: metaph., c. dat., become absolutely one with . . , “γαμέτας συντηχθεὶς αὔραις . . ἀλόχοιο” E.Supp.1029 (lyr., dub.l.); “κακὸς κακῷ συντέτηκε” Id.Fr.296; “ἀγαθὴ γυνὴ ἀνδρὶ συντέτηκε” Id.Fr. 909.3; “συντακεὶς τῷ ἐρωμένῳ” Pl.Smp.192e, cf. 183e.
2. melt away, dissolve, disappear, [“ἴχνη] οὐ ταχὺ συντήκεται” X.Cyn.8.1; “ς. ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρός” Pl.Ti.83b.
3. metaph., waste away, “συντήκεσθαι ὑπὸ λιμοῦ” Hp.VM11, cf. Thphr.Od.61(59), Sor.2.45, Gal.6.76; λύπαις, νόσῳ, E.El.240, Or.34, cf. 283, Med.689; “πυρετοῖσι” Aret.SD1.8.
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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