σύνοδος

σύνοδος (A), ὁ, ἡ,

A = συνοδοιπόρος, AP7.635 (Antiphil.), Arr.Epict. 2.14.8, 3.21.5, Certamen 245, Man.5.58.

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σύνοδος (B), ἡ,

A assembly, meeting, esp. for deliberation, Orac. ap. Hdt.9.43, And.1.47, Th.1.96,119, IG42(1).68.93 (Epid., iv B.C.), etc.;

ξ. Ἀχαιῶν E.Hec.107

(anap.);

σ. κώμης BGU1648.6

(ii A.D.);

σ. συλλεγῆναι Hdt.9.27

;

ποιῆσαι Ar.Th.301

(prose decree);

ἀπὸ κοινῶν ξ. βουλεύειν Th.1.97

; ἐκ τῶν ξ. Id.5.17; σ. πρὸς τῷ διαιτητῇ meeting of parties in court, D.54.29: pl., of political clubs or conspiracies, Sol.4.22, Ar.Eq.477, Th.3.82, Pl.Tht.173d; ἑταιρείας μὴ ποιεῖσθε μηδὲ ς. Isoc.3.54; also of private meetings or gatherings for discussion, διαλεκτικαὶ ς. Arist.Top.159a32; of synods of the church, Cod.Just.1.1.7.12.

2 national gathering, Th.3.104, Pl.Smp.197d; αἱ ἀρχαῖαι θυσίαι καὶ ς. Arist.EN1160a26: hence, society for festal purposes,

τῶν ἐρανιστῶν IG22.1369.32

;

τῶν μυστῶν SIG851.25

(Smyrna, ii A.D.);

τῶν Ἀσκλαπιαστᾶν IG42(1).679

(Epid.).

3 company, guild,

τεχνιτᾶν SIG698.1

(Delph., ii B.C.); [συγγεωργῶν] Sammelb.7457.5,9 (ii B.C.); athletic club, OGI486.17 (Pergam., ii A.D.), 713.9 (Alexandria, iii A.D.); ἡ ἱερὰ ξυστικὴ περιπολιστικὴ . . ς. PLond.3.1178.38 (ii A.D.), cf. POxy.908.9 (ii A.D.), IG22.1350.

4 in hostile sense, meeting of two armies, Ar.Ra.1532, Th.3.107, 5.70, X.An.1.10.7, etc.

5 = συνουσία, sexual intercourse, Arist.HA541a31, Clearch.49, Ph.1.148, Plu.Lyc. 15, Gal.15.47.

II of things, coming together, constriction, κυάνεαι σύνοδοι θαλάσσας, of the straits of the Bosporus, E.IT393 (lyr.); ἡ σ. τοῦ πλησίον ἀλλήλων τεθῆναι the coming together resulting from juxtaposition, Pl.Phd.97a; ἡ τῆς πιλήσεως ς. Id.Ti. 58b; ἡ τοῦ ὕδατος ς., viz. ice, ib.61a; ὅσον διαχυτικὸν . . τῶν περὶ τὸ στόμα ς. whatever relaxes . . constriction in the organ of taste, ib. 60b;

ἀναγκαῖον τῶν τοιούτων γίνεσθαι σύνοδον, ἀλλ' οὐ διὰ ψύξιν Arist. GA764b7

; ἡ εἰς αὑτὸν ς. contraction of a muscle, Gal.UP12.8, cf. Id.4.391; ἡ σ. ἡ κατὰ [τὴν οὐσίαν] λεγομένη the union of matter and form, viz. the concrete object, Arist.Metaph.1033b17; concourse, assemblage,

παθῶν Longin.10.3

; of the parts of the foetus, Sor.2.64; combination of numbers, Theol.Ar.8;

σημείων Gal.16.505

.

2 Astron., conjunction,

τῶν πλανήτων καὶ πρὸς αὑτοὺς καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀπλανεῖς Arist. Mete.343b30

; of the sun and moon, Plu.2.269c, IG14.2126 ([place name] Rome);

ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης Gal.18(2).240

;

σ. ἐκλειπτικὴ σελήνης πρὸς ἥλιον Plu. Rom.12

; αἱ ς., of the times of new moon, Zeno Stoic.1.34;

αἱ τῶν μηνῶν σ. ψυχραὶ διὰ τὴν τῆς σελήνης ἀπόλειψιν Arist.GA738a20

, cf. Thphr.Sign.5, LXX De.33.14.

3 Gramm., construction, A.D.Synt. 28.11, al.

III incoming of revenue,

χρημάτων σύνοδοι Hdt.1.64

; revenues, ἀπὸ τῶν ς. IG11(4).1217 ([place name] Delos); τῶν φερόντων τὴν σ. τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ ξενίου ib.22.1012.15 (ii B.C.); οἱ τὴν σ. φέροντες τῷ θεῷ ib.22.1326.6. (Written sunhod-, i.e. συνὁδ-, in a Latin inscr., CIL12.2519.2,3,4 (i B.C.(?)); also synhod-, ib.6, IG14.2495 ([place name] Nemausus), CIL12.3183 (ibid.), 6.10117 ([place name] Rome).)