Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ξυνάγω ‎(xunágō)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /synáɣo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /synáɣo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sináɣo/

Verb

συνάγω • ‎(sunágō)

1. (of persons, animals, etc.) to bring together, gather together
   • Homer, Iliad 6.87, (Compare Herodotus, Histories 2.111, 3.150)
   • Herodotus, Histories 7.60
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 562
   • Sophocles, Fragments 468
   • Euripides, Orestes 1640, (Compare Aristophanes, Lysistrata 585)
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.84
   • Plato, Phaedrus 256.C, (Compare Theaetetus 194.B)
   • Aristotle, Politics 3.11.4
   • Aristotle, Politics 4.15.8
   • Aristotle, Politics 3.14.12
   1. to bring together for deliberation or festivity
      • Batrachomyomachia 134
      • Herodotus, Histories 6.85
      • Herodotus, Histories 8.59
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
      • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 1
   2. (in a hostile sense) to join battle
      • Homer, Iliad 2.381
      • Homer, Iliad 5.861
      • Homer, Iliad 14.448
      • Isocrates, Collected Works 57.D

        πόλεμον σ.

      1. to match two warriors against one another
         • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 508
         • Plutarch, Poplicola 9
         • Theocritus, Collected Works 22.82, (Compare Polybius, The Histories 11.18.4)
      2. to collect or levy soldiers
         • Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.5
   3. to bring together, join in one, unite
      • Homeric Hymn to Hermes 507
      • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 756
      • Euripides, Helen 644, (Compare Aristophanes, The Acharnians 991)
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.36
      • Xenophon, Symposium 4.64
      • Plato, The Republic 365.D
      • Plato, Laws 625.E
   4. to bring together, make friends of, reconcile
      • Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.4.18
      • Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 42, (Compare Plato, The Statesman 311.C)
   5. to collect oneself
      • Plutarch, Philopoemen 20
   6. to lead with one, receive
      • Septuagint, 1 Kings 11.27, (Compare 19 15)
      • The Gospel of Matthew 25.35
2. (of things) gather together
   • Homer, Odyssey 5.291
   • Homer, Odyssey 14.296
   • Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.8
   • Herodotus, Histories 6.119
   • Aristotle, Politics 5.11.14
   • Polybius, The Histories 12.2.5
   • The Gospel of Matthew 6.26
   • Plato, The Statesman 311.C
   • Menander, Monostiches 196
   • Diphilus, The Painter 2.28
   • Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.2, (Compare Plato, The Republic 488.A)
   1. 1. (of a historical writer) summarize
         • Isocrates, Collected Works 285.B
         • Isocrates, Collected Works 319.B
         • Plato, Laws 811.A, (Compare The Sophist 251.D)
         • Aeschines, Collected Works 47.26
         • Diogenes Laërtius 4.33
   2. to draw together, so as to make the extremities meet
      • Herodotus, Histories 6.113
      • Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 290
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.125, (Compare 1.63)
      • Herodotus, Histories 4.52
      • Timaeus of Locri, Collected Works 101.B
      • Aristotle, History of Animals 8.4.3
      1. to draw together, narrow, contract
         • Herodotus, Histories 7.23
         • Polybius, The Histories 5.93.5
         • Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.3.11
         • Aristotle, History of Animals 1.17.3
         • Aristotle, Meteorology 2.1.9
         • Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 477.E
         • Sophocles, Fragments 752
         • Aristophanes, The Frogs 823
         • Aristotle, Problems 31.7.6
         • Xenophon, Cynegeticus 3.5, (Compare Aristophanes, The Knights 1348)
      2. (figuratively)
         • Appian, On Hannibal 60
         • Polybius, Histories 1.18.7, (and v. 10)
   3. to collect or club things for a picnic
      • Diphil., The Painter 2.28
   4. to collect from premises, i.e. to conclude, infer, draw an inference
      • Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.2.13
      • Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.22.15
      • Aristotle, Metaphysics 7.1.1
      • Aristotle, Politics 4.15.8
      • Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.15.33, (Compare Lucian, How to Write History 16)
      • Aristotle, Politics 2.12.7
      • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.6
   5. (passive) to be carried along with
      • Timaeus of Locri, Collected Works 98.E
   6. to bring about
      • Appian, Bella Civilia 1.101
      • Appian, Bella Civilia 5.145

Inflection

Derived terms

• συναγωγή ‎(sunagōgḗ)

Synonyms

• (match two warriors): συμβάλλω ‎(sumbállō), συνίημι ‎(suníēmi)

References

• συνάγω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συνάγω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «συνάγω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4863”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979