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συνυ^φαίνω , pf.
A.“συνύφαγκα” D.H.Comp.18, Ruf.Anat.9:—weave together, of the spider, Arist.HA623a11; ἡ τῶν χιτώνων τῶν τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν συνυφαγκότων πλοκή Ruf.l.c.:—Med., “πλέγμα ἐξ ἀέρος καὶ πυρὸς συνυφηνάμενος” Pl.Ti.78b:—Pass., of the horns of certain oxen, to be entangled, Arist.Fr.363.
2. metaph., weave together, frame with art, “ἵνα τοι σὺν μῆτιν ὑφήνω” Od.13.303; ἡ πάντα συνυφαίνουσα [πολιτική] which weaves all into one web, Pl.Plt.305e; “ς. τὸν λόγον” Arist.Rh.Al.1439a31; [τοὺς ῥυθμούς] D.H. l.c.; “ὑπόμνημά τι” Luc.Hist.Conscr.48; “ἐκέρασε τᾷ πολυτεκνίᾳ τοὺς . . οἴκους εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ συνυφήνας” IG42(1).86.15 (Epid., i A.D.):—Pass., ὥστε ταῦτα συνυφανθῆναι so that this web was woven, i.e. this business contrived, Hdt.5.105; of the parts of a sentence, D.H.Comp.23; θύννοι ἀλλήλοις συνυφασμένοι quite close together, Ael.NA15.3.
II. weave in company, Men.142, PSI3.167.9 (ii B.C.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.105
    • Homer, Odyssey, 13.303
    • Plato, Statesman, 305e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 78b
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 48
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 18
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 23
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 15.3
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