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συγγεν-ικός , ή, όν,
A.congenital or hereditary, of a predisposition to disease, Hp.Epid.3.1.ς´, cf. Plu.Per.22; “ς. τρίχες” Arist.Pr.878b27 (cf. “συγγενής” 1); τὸ ς. τέλος our congenital end, Nausiph.2, Polystr.Herc.346p.86V., cf. Epicur.Ep.3p.63U. Adv. “-κῶς” Id.Ep.1p.24U.
II. of or for kinsmen, ς. φιλία between kinsfolk, opp. ἑταιρική, Arist.EN1161b12; “ς. ἱερωσύναι” D.H.2.21; “ς. ἀρχιερατικοὶ στέφανοι” OGI470.20 (Odemish, i A.D.); “τὰ ἀρχῆθεν ὑπάρχοντα ταῖς πόλεσιν πρὸς ἀλλήλας ς. δίκαια” IG12(9).4.7 (Carystus, ca. i B.C.); κατὰ τὸ ς. Sammelb.4638.6 (ii B.C.); “συγγενικῆς θεᾶς Ἴσιδος” Bull.Soc.Alex.5.273 (ii A.D.). Adv. -κῶς like kinsfolk, D.25.89, Polyaen.5.2.8.
2. metaph., kindred, of a common kind, ἔχειν τὴν μορφὴν ς. Arist.HA623b6; τὰ κοινὰ καὶ ς. things common and of our own nature, Alex.30.7; εἴδη πρὸς ἄλληλα ς. Arist.HA531b22.
3. of, belonging to the συγγενεῖς (111), Phan.Hist.11, Arch.Pap.1.220 (Ptolemaic).
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 89
    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.1
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 22
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.21
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