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σύστρεμμα

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Ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρίαRoot of all the evils is the love of money (Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas)

The Bible, 1 Timothy, 6:10
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Transliteration A: sýstremma Transliteration B: systremma Transliteration C: systremma Beta Code: su/stremma

English (LSJ)

ατος, τό,

   A anything twisted up together: hence,    1 globe, ball, ἐξ ἐρίου Sor.2.87; ἐρίου ibid., Orib.Syn.9.55.1; ἐκ σχοινίου Hsch. s.v. σπεῖον; συστρέμματα round drops of water, Arist.Mu. 394a32.    2 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 lightarmed (= 2 ξεναγίαι), Ascl.Tact.6.3, Ael.Tact.16.3, Arr.Tact.14.5; of ἔφηβοι, IG22.2047 (συνστ-), al.: whence συστρεμμᾰτάρχης, ου, ὁ, title of 4 ἔκτακτοι attached to an ἐπίταγμα τῶν ψιλῶν (cf. ἐπιξεναγός), Ascl.Tact.6.3, Arr.Tact.14.6, Ael.Tact.16.4, IG22.3749; and συστρᾰτηγ-αρχέω, IG22.2127 (συνστ-), 2197, al.    3 tumour, Hp.Prorrh. 2.41, Epid.2.3.12, Gal.UP8.8, etc.    b concretion in the motions, Hp.Epid.4.52, Antyll. ap. Orib.8.6.21, Gal.16.762.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1045] τό, 1) das Zusammengedrehte, -gewundene, die Rundung, z. B. eines Tropfens. – 2) Versammlung, Rotte, Haufe, Pol. 1, 45, 10 u. oft. – 3) bei den Aerzten Geschwulst, Hippocr. u. A. – 4) bei Sp. alles künstlich Gedrehte, dah. übertr. List, Ränke, Nachstellung.