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|Definition=συστρέμματος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> anything [[twist]]ed up [[together]]: hence,<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[globe]], [[ball]], ἐξ ἐρίου Sor.2.87; [[ἐρίου]] ibid., Orib.''Syn.''9.55.1; ἐκ σχοινίου [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[σπεῖον]]; συστρέμματα = [[round]] [[drop]]s of [[water]], Arist.''Mu.'' 394a32.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[body of men]], [[crowd]], [[concourse]], Plb.1.45.10, 35.4.14; [[band]], [[company]], Id.4.58.4, [[LXX]] ''2 Ki.''4.2, al.; esp. [[corps]] of 1024 [[light-armed]] (= 2 [[ξεναγία]]ι), Ascl.''Tact.''6.3, Ael.''Tact.''16.3, Arr.''Tact.''14.5; of [[ἔφηβος|ἔφηβοι]], ''IG''22.2047 (συνστ-), al.: whence [[συστρεμματάρχης]], ου, ὁ, title of 4 [[ἔκτακτος|ἔκτακτοι]] attached to an [[ἐπίταγμα]] τῶν ψιλῶν (cf. [[ἐπιξεναγός]]), Ascl.''Tact.''6.3, Arr.''Tact.''14.6, Ael.''Tact.''16.4, ''IG''22.3749; and [[συστρατηγαρχέω]], ''IG''22.2127 ([[συνστρατηγαρχέω]]), 2197, al.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[tumour]], Hp.''Prorrh.'' 2.41, ''Epid.''2.3.12, Gal.''UP''8.8, etc.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[concretion]] in the motions, Hp.''Epid.''4.52, Antyll. ap. Orib.8.6.21, Gal.16.762.