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συλλύω ,
A.help in loosing, “ξύλλυε μητρὸς δεσμόν” E.Andr.723:— Med., τῷ Πριάμῳ συλλυσόμενοι τὸν παῖδ᾽ assist him in redeeming . . , Ar.Fr.678.
II. solve difficulties, settle, put an end to, τὰ νείκη, τὸν πόλεμον, D.S.3.64, 29.22; ς. τινάς reconcile them, IG7.21.8 (Megara, ii B.C.), cf. SIG599.13 (Priene, ii B.C.), Klio 18.281 (Delph., ii B.C.), Phld.Rh.1.268 S.; and so prob. S.Aj.1317, εἰ μὴ ξυνάψων, ἀλλὰ συλλύσων πάρει not to stir conflict, but to reconcile:— Med. and Pass., come to a settlement, “πρός τινα” D.S.12.4; τισι LXX 1 Ma.13.47; ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς δικαίοις ib.2 Ma.11.14.
III. in A.Ch. 294, δέχεσθαι δ᾽ οὔτε συλλύειν τινά, Sch. expl. συλλύειν by συγκλύειν (leg. συγκαταλύειν）, συνοικεῖν, rest under the same roof.
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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