σύγχυσις
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ, (συγχέω)
A mixture, confusion, confounding, ἡ τῶν ἄλλων (v.l. ὅλων) σ. Hp.Epid.6.3.1; of Babel, LXX Ge. 11.9; σ. ποιήσασθαι Plb.30.22.7; σ. λαβεῖν to be commingled, Plu.2.990a; σ. ὅρων ib.122c; ς. litterularum, Cic.Att.6.9.1; political confusion, σ. τῆς πολιτείας ib.7.8.4, cf. Plb.14.5.8. b formation of a compound, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.153, al. 2 confusion, ruin, βίου, δόμων, E.Andr. 291 (lyr.), 959; σ. τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἡ νόσος Thphr.CP5.8.1; σ. θανάτου μεγάλη 'indiscriminate mortality' LXX 1 Ki.5.6; σ. λήψεται Epicur. Fr.300. 3 Gramm., of composition, confusion, indistinctness, A.D.Pron.12.15, Synt.24.18; opp. εὐκρίνεια, Hermog.Id.1.4. 4 an injury to the eye, synchysis, Dsc.4.12, Eup.1.33, Gal.14.776, Aët. 7.58. II of persons, confusion, Luc.Nigr.35; σ. ἔχοντες confounded, E.IA1128; σ. ὀμματίων AP5.129 (Maec.). III of contracts and the like, violation, τῶν σπονδῶν Th.1.146, 5.26; νόμων Isoc.4.114 (pl.); σ. ὁρκίων Plu.Alc.14; τὴν τῶν ὅρκων καὶ σπονδῶν σ. Pl.R.379e. 2 confusion, SIG684.7 (Dyme, ii B.C.), Act.Ap.19.29.
German (Pape)
[Seite 972] εως, ἡ, Vermischung, Verwirrung, Vernichtung, Vereitlung; ὁρκίων σύγχυσις hieß die erste Hälfte des vierten Buchs der Ilias bei den Gramm., wegen Il. 4, 269; πικρὰ βίου, Eur. Andr. 291; δόμων, 960; ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶς, I. A. 551, τῶν σπονδῶν, Thuc. 1, 146, Verletzung, wie Plat. Rep. II. 379 e, νόμων, neben στάσεις, Isocr. 4, 114; Verwirrung, neben ἴλιγγος, Luc. Nigr. 35; νεῶν, Ep. ad. 492 (Plan. 300); καὶ ταραχή, Pol. 14, 5, 8.
