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|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[twisting together]], <b class="b3">σ. χαύνην λαμβάνειν</b> to [[be]] loosely [[twisted]], of yarn, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>282e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[turning round]], [[varia lectio|v.l.]] (ap.Plu.2.891e) in <span class="title">Placit.</span>2.29.3, for [[συντροφή]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[condensation]], [[density]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>964a18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> pl., [[dealings]], [[converse]] between men, <span class="bibl">Epicur. <span class="title">Sent.</span>33</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> metaph. of style, [[terseness]], [[concentration]], <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Dem.</span> 18</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>53</span>, <span class="bibl">Demetr.<span class="title">Eloc.</span>8</span>; ἐν συστροφῇ [[concisely]], PMag.Lond.46.25. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[that which is rolled into one mass]]: hence, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[collection]], [[gathering]], <b class="b3">πλήθεος σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.9</span>.ά; [[seditious meeting]], [[concourse]], <span class="bibl">Plb. 4.34.6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>19.40</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ συστροφάς</b> in [[knots]], <span class="bibl">D.H.5.31</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">μετὰ συστροφῆς</b> in [[close array]], <span class="bibl">D.S.11.8</span>; also, [[swarm]] of bees, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jd.</span> 14.8</span> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]]); [[flock]] of birds, <span class="bibl">Artem.2.20</span>; of other things, σ. δρυῶν <span class="bibl">D.Chr.1.52</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[physical mass]], [[aggregate]], in plural, <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span>1pp.25,28</span> U.; esp. [[morbid collection]] or [[deposit]] of tubercles, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>41</span>; <b class="b3">αἱ περὶ τοὺς κονδύλους σ</b>. chalk-stones, Dsc.1.30; <b class="b3">σ. νεύρων</b> a [[complication]] of nerves or sinews, Id.5.117, <span class="title">Eup.</span>1.229; χάριν τοῦ . . τὰ νεῦρα καθάπερ ἐκ σ. τινος ἁπλοῦσθαι <span class="bibl">Sor.1.101</span>; συστροφαὶ νοσημάτων Hp.Acut.(Sp.) 4; [[tumour]], Plu.2.664f, Gal.15.773, Hp. ap. eund.19.143. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[twisted grain]] in wood, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>5.2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">5.5.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[συστροφή]], with or without [[ὄμβρου]], a [[sudden storm]] of rain, <span class="bibl">Plb.3.74.5</span>, <span class="bibl">11.24.9</span>; <b class="b3">σ. ἀνέμου, πνεύματος</b>, [[whirl]]wind, Phryn.374, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Vent.</span> 34</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ho.</span>4.19</span>; <b class="b3">νέφη καὶ σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Antig.<span class="title">Mir.</span>40</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> of stars, <b class="b3">νεφελοειδὴς σ</b>., = [[nebula]], <span class="bibl">Heph.Astr.1.3</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Tetr.</span>149</span> (pl.), <span class="title">Alm.</span>7.5, al.</span>