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Ἀλλ’ ἐσθ’ ὁ θάνατος λοῖσθος ἰατρός κακῶν → But death is the ultimate healer of ills

Sophocles, Fragment 698
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Transliteration A: symptýssō Transliteration B: symptyssō Transliteration C: symptysso Beta Code: sumptu/ssw

English (LSJ)

   A fold or pack together, S.Tr.691:—Pass., βλέφαρα συμπτυσσόμενα eyelids which close, Gal.UP10.6.    2 Pass., σνμπτύσσεσθαι τὰ ἐπίπεδα are folded together fan-wise, Procl.Hyp.5.115: metaph., to be implicit, not yet unfolded, ἀριθμὸς ἔτι συνεπτυγμένος Dam.Pr.1; ἐν τῷ κέντρῳ -έπτυκται ὁ κύκλος ib.32, cf. Procl.Inst. 171.    3 knock in, dent, συνεπτυγμένον ἄργυρον, = collisum argentum, Gloss.