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συνήθεια , ἡ,
A.habitual intercourse, acquaintance, intimacy, αἱ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ς. Isoc.1.1; “διατριβαὶ καὶ -θειαι μετά τινων” Aeschin.2.23; ἡ τῶν φίλων ς. ib.152; “ς. καὶ φιλία” Arist.GA753a12; ἡ πολιτικὴ ς. Id.EN1181a11; “τὰς τῶν φαύλων ς. ὀλίγος χρόνος διέλυσε” Isoc.1.1; “ὅπως ἂν αἱ ς. διαζευχθῶσιν” Arist.Pol.1319b26; καὶ αὐτῷ δέ μοί εἰσι ς. PCair.Zen.42.2 (iii B.C.); “ὢν ἡμῖν ἐν συνηθείᾳ” PMich.Zen.82.3 (iii B.C.).
b. sexual intercourse, X.Cyr.6.1.31 (v.l.); “ς. ἔχειν μετὰ γυναικός” Plu.2.310e; “πρὸς γυναῖκα” Vett.Val.288.23.
2. of animals, herding together, Arist.HA575b19; νέμεσθαι κατὰ συνηθείας in herds, ib.611a7, cf. Ael.NA2.31; so of soldiers, κατὰ συνηθείας in messes, Plb.35.4.14.
II. habit, custom, h.Merc.485 (pl.), Hp.VM3, Pl.R. 516a, etc.; pl., φαῦλαι ς. bad habits, Epicur.Sent.Vat.46; “κατὰ συνήθειαν τοῦ προτέρου βίου” Pl.R.620a; ἐν τοῖς ἤθεσι τοῖς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ συνηθείας in his own accustomed haunts, Id.Lg.865e; ἡ ς. τοῦ ἔργου habituation to it, X.Cyn.12.4; “λήθην ἢ συνήθειαν τῶν ἀδικημάτων” D. 19.3, cf. 60.27; “πολλῆς . . ς. ἡ ῥητορική” Epicur.Fr.46; τῇ ς. τοῦ εἰδώλου by being used to it, 1 Ep.Cor.8.7; practice, Plb.1.42.7, cf.Pl. Lg.656d: with Preps., “διὰ συνήθειαν” Id.Sph.248b; διὰ τὴν ς. Arist. HA494b21; “ἐκ συνηθείας” OGI629.12,79 (Palmyra, ii A.D.); κατὰ ς. Pl.R.l.c.; “παρὰ συνήθειαν” Id.Lg.655e; “ἠναγκάσμεθα ὑπὸ συνηθείας” Id.Tht.157b; ς. ἔχειν τῇ πολιτείᾳ to be used to it, practised in it, Plb.39.5.2; “ς. κτᾶσθαι πρὸς τὰ κοινά” Plu.2.791a.
2. the customary usage of language, “ἐκ ς. ῥημάτων καὶ ὀνομάτων” Pl.Tht.168b, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.3.33; εἰς συνήθειαν ἐποίησε τοῦ λόγου τούτου τὴν πόλιν καταστῆναι brought the city to habitual use of this phrase, Aeschin. 1.165; ἡ ς. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, αἱ κατὰ τὰς διαλέκτους ς., Phld.Rh.1.59 S., Gal.18(2).237, Phld.Po.5.2; ἐν τῇ τεχνικῇ καὶ μὴ εἰκαίᾳ ς. Diocl. Magn.Stoic.3.214: abs., ordinary language, ἐν τῇ ς. Plu.2.22f, cf.ib.c, 1113a; κατὰ τὴν ς. A.D.Synt.323.22, cf. Demetr.Eloc.69, al., D.H. Amm.2.11, Herod.Med. in Rh.Mus.49.549.
III. customary gratuity, Sammelb.7336.13 (iii A.D.), 7369.25 (vi A.D.), PLond.1.113 (3).11, 3.1036.8 (both vi A.D.): pl., perquisites, Cod.Just.3.2.4, Just. Nov.134.1, al.
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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