Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, συ^χνός

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II. of Number, many, “ἔθνεα” Hdt.1.58; “πόλιες” Id.6.33; πόνοι ib.108; [πρόλογοι] Ar.Ra.1237; πληγαί, κακά, Id.Av.1014, Pl.R.544c, etc.; ἡμέρας συχνάς for many days together, Id.Prt.313a, cf. D.35.30; τεκεῖν πέντε συχνὰ ταῖς αὐταῖς ὠδῖσι five at once, Plu.2.429f (s.v.l., τέκνα is cj.): c. gen., “συχναὶ τῶν νήσων” Hdt.3.39; “ς. τῶν λόγων” Pl.Grg.519e; τῶν ληφθέντων ς. Th.4.106, cf. X.An.5.4.16, etc.: abs., συχνοί many people together, Th.2.52, etc.; ἄλλοι ς. many others, Ar.Ec.388.

2. with sg. nouns, great, large, “λεπαστή” Theopomp.Com.41; “σφύραινα” Antiph. 97; [τὸ πολίχνιον] ς. ποιεῖν make the small town populous, Pl.R. 370d; “ς. χώρα” Str.15.1.28; “οἰκία” Anon. ap. Suid.; “ς. θεραπεία εὐνούχων” Iamb. ap. eund.

b. much, great, “οὐσία” Ar.Pl.754; “πειθώ” Pl. R.414c; ς. ἔργον great, difficult, ib.511c; ς. εὐλάβεια, σκέψις, μελέτη, great, constant, ib.539b, Lg.968b, Thphr.Fr.175; ς. τὸ ὑπεραῖρον τὸ ὕδωρ large part (of the plant), Id.HP4.8.10; ς. εἶδος often-recurring, Pl.Plt.287e; ἡ διοίκησις ς. the expense was great, D.59.42; “ς. αἷμα ἐρρύη” Hp.Epid.7.77; διέρχεται φλέγμα ς. Gal.16.584; δεῖπνον ς. plentiful, AP6.303 (Aristo); ς. θεραπεία, πληθύς, ἀργύριον, etc., Plu.Publ.5, Pomp.39, Lys.16, etc.: c. gen., “τῆς μαρίλης συχνήν” Ar. Ach.350.

III. of Space, “προσεπιδεῖν καὶ ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν ἐπὶ συχνόν” Hp.Fract.14; συχνοτέρας κινήσιας ἔχει more extensive movements, Id.Mochl.1.

B. the Adv. συχνῶς (Antipho 3.3.3, PGiss.20.25 (ii A.D.), Gal. 16.684) is rare, the neut. συχνόν, συχνά being used instead,

I. often, much, “συχνὸν διαμαρτάνεις” Pl.Phdr.257d; “συχνὰ χαίρειν ἐᾶν” Id.Phlb.59b; “ἐπὶ συχνόν” Hp.Fract.14.

2. far, “διαλείποντα συχνὸν ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων” X.An.1.8.10; “προελαύνουσι” Id.Cyr.6.3.12; “ἀποπτάς” Arist.HA619a32.

II. dat. συχνῷ is freq. joined with a Comp. Adj., like πολλῷ, ς. βελτίων far better, Pl.Lg.761d, cf. Hp.Mul.1.69, Gal.6.471; νεώτερος ἐμοῦ καὶ συχνῷ younger by a good deal, D.39.27.

III. Adv. Comp. “-οτέρως” EM665.20; “-ότερον” Aristaenet.1.17.

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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