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συνερείδω ,
A.press together, close, “χερσὶ κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς ἑλέειν σύν τε στόμ᾽ ἐρεῖσαι” Od.11.426; ς. ὀδόντας set the teeth, lock them fast, Hp.Coac.230 (where συνερίζειν is f.l.), Mul.2.201; bind together, bind fast, “τινὰ περόναις” E.Ba.97 (lyr.):—Pass., αἱ γνάθοι συνερειδόμεναι being set or locked, Hp.Epid.5.74; χέρας δεσμοῖς -ερεισθέντες with their hands tight bound, E.IT457 (anap.), cf. Theoc.22.68; “διὰ τὸ μὴ ς. τὴν ἀρτηρίαν” Arist.Aud.801a2; χεῖρες ξυνηρεισμέναι arms flexed, Aret.SA1.6.
2. ς. τὸν λογισμόν reason closely, Plu.2.600e codd.
II. intr., to be firmly set, “οἱ ὀδόντες συνηρείκασι” Hp.Morb. Sacr.7, cf. Sor.2.27, Fract.4 (prob.); “ξυνερείσουσιν οἱ ὀδόντες” Aret. SA1.5; γένυς ξ. τῇ ἄνω is locked with . . , ib.6; also of soldiers, “ς. πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Plb.12.21.3, cf. Arr.Tact. 16.14.
2. meet in close conflict, “τοῖς ἐναντίοις” Plb.5.84.2; dash together, of ships, D.S.13.46, Plu.Them.14; press on, “τοὺς ὠθισμοὺς τοῖς προτεταγμένοις” Arr.Tact. 12.3.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.46
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 97
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 457
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.426
    • Polybius, Histories, 12.21.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.84.2
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.5
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 6
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.6
    • Plutarch, Themistocles, 14
    • Arrian, Tactica, 12.3
    • Arrian, Tactica, 16.14
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