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σύμφυ_λ-ος , ον,
A.of the same stock or race with, “αἱ μέλιτται καὶ τὰ ς. ζῷα ταύταις” Arist.PA682b10; οἱ σύμφυλοι his congeners, Babr.101.3.
II. metaph., of the same class with, βρονταί τε καὶ ἀστραπαὶ . . καὶ τἆλλα ἃ δὴ τούτοις ἐστὶ ς. Arist.Mu.394a19; cognaie, suitable, νομή, τροφή, Plu.2.729c,991b; τὸ ς. ib.661e; of digested food, “συμφυλοτέραν τῷ ζῴῳ γενομένην” Gal.6.303; “τὰ ς. τῷ σώματι” Plu.2.137b; τὸ -ότατον [τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ] Phld.Vit.p.28 J.; “τῶν ς. ἡμῖν οἶνος” Orib. Fr.124; “ς. ἡ νόησις τῷ μερισμῷ” Dam.Pr.146.
2. συμφύλων （-φίλων cod.) Χειρῶν προσαφῇ （πρὸς ἁφήν cod.) θάλποντα (translated cum quodam calidarum manuum amplexu, Cael.Aur.TP3.22) Sor.2.28 (dub.).
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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