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συνα^φή , ἡ,
A.connexion, union, Arist.Spir.484b22, Thphr.Ign.33, Plu.2.1080f (pl.), etc.; κατὰ συναφήν in connexion with other things, opp. αὐτοτελῶς, Epicur.Ep.2p.36U.; conjunction of heavenly bodies, PMag.Leid.W.24.21, Nech. ap. Vett.Val.279.23, Man.1.74, al.; application, opp. “ἀπόρροια” 1.3, Gal.19.543, Paul.Al.H.1; generally, combination, Epicur.Nat.11.13, 28.9; opp. ἀφαίρεσις, Phld. D.3.12, etc.; ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ς. Thphr.CP4.12.8, cf. Metaph.2; confluence, “τινὸς πρός τι” Ptol.Geog.3.16.8, etc.; junction of branches of the Milky Way, Id.Alm.8.2.
II. point or line of junction, as in bivalve shells, Arist.PA680a24; tangential point of a circle and straight line, Id.LI971b17; ἡ τοῦ βέλους πρὸς τὸ ξύλον ς. Plb. 6.23.11; “τῶν μισθοφόρων καὶ τῶν ἱππέων” Id.12.18.10; “κατὰ τὴν ς. ἐγκεκλιμέναι” Plu.2.1079d; Astron., = σύνδεσμος VI. 1, node, Cleom. 2.5.
III. in Music, conjunction of two tetrachords, opp. “διάζευξις” 2, Plu.2.491a, CleonidHarm.10, Bacch.38,81, Gaud.6, POxy.667.11 (Aristox.(?)); cf. “συνάπτω” A.111.2.
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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