2. maintenance, control, ς. ἡ ἑαυτοῦ selfmaintenance, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.173; “προνοίᾳ καὶ ς. θεοῦ” Placit.2.4.2; “ς. τῆς ἰδίας εὐδαιμονίας” Epicur.Fr.361.
II. (συνέχομαι) a being held together,
1. contraction, ἐν ξυνοχῇσιν ὁδοῦ where the road contracts, at a narrow part of the road, Il.23.330; ἁλὸς ἐν ξυνοχῇσιν in the narrows or straits, A.R.2.318; “ἐνὶ ξυνοχῇ λιμένος” Id.1.1006.
2. conflict in battle, “ἐνὶ ξυνοχῇσιν ἀγῶνος” Q.S.4.342; “ἐνὶ ξυνοχῇ πολέμοιο” A.R.1.160; “στυγερῶν ἐγ ξυνοχαῖς πολέμων” IG9(1).1064 (Anticyra, iii B.C.).
3. continuity, Arist.Top.122b26, cf. Alex.Aphr.ad loc.; “ς. κατὰ τόπον” Apollod.Stoic. 3.260; coherence, “ς. καὶ ἕνωσις τῶν μερῶν” Dam.Pr.112, al.; combination of elements, Plot.2.9.5.
b. intension or connotation, Dam.Pr.263.
4. line of union, meeting-place, “βλεφάρων” Coluth.74; ξ. χιτῶνος the joining of the tunic on the shoulder, A.R.1.744; ἡ κατὰ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ς. the clinging of the garment to the body, Arr.Epict.4.11.12.
5. metaph., distress, affliction, Ev.Luc.21.25, 2 Ep.Cor.2.4; oppression, Vett.Val.2.8(pl.),PMag.Lond.122.35; detention, imprisonment, BGU 1821.21 (i B.C.), PLond.2.354.24 (i B.C.), Vett.Val.74.23, Man.1.313 (pl.), al.: but of going to bed in disease, ἀκίνδυνος ἔσται ἡ ς. Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.1.102.
6. trap, gin, snare, LXX Jd.2.3 (pl.).
