A.mixture, confusion, confounding, ἡ τῶν ἄλλων (v.l. ὅλων) ς. Hp.Epid.6.3.1; of Babel, LXX Ge. 11.9; “ς. ποιήσασθαι” Plb.30.22.7; ς. λαβεῖν to be commingled, Plu.2.990a; ς. ὅρων ib.122c; ς. litterularum, Cic.Att.6.9.1; political confusion, ς. τῆς πολιτείας ib.7.8.4, cf. Plb.14.5.8.
b. formation of a compound, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.153, al.
2. confusion, ruin, βίου, δόμων, E.Andr. 291 (lyr.), 959; “ς. τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἡ νόσος” Thphr.CP5.8.1; ς. θανάτου μεγάλη 'indiscriminate mortality' LXX 1 Ki.5.6; “ς. λήψεται” Epicur. Fr.300.
3. Gramm., of composition, confusion, indistinctness, A.D.Pron.12.15, Synt.24.18; opp. εὐκρίνεια, Hermog.Id.1.4.
4. an injury to the eye, synchysis, Dsc.4.12, Eup.1.33, Gal.14.776, Aët. 7.58.
II. of persons, confusion, Luc.Nigr.35; ς. ἔχοντες confounded, E.IA1128; “ς. ὀμματίων” AP5.129 (Maec.).
III. of contracts and the like , violation, “τῶν σπονδῶν” Th.1.146, 5.26; “νόμων” Isoc.4.114 (pl.); “ς. ὁρκίων” Plu.Alc.14; τὴν τῶν ὅρκων καὶ σπονδῶν ς. Pl.R.379e.
2. confusion, SIG684.7 (Dyme, ii B.C.), Act.Ap.19.29.