συνίζησις
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ,
A subsidence, collapse, of the earth, ἐς τὰ κοῖλα Id.Mu.396a3 (but γῆ [ἐγένετο] κατὰ συνίζησιν (sc. τοῦ ὕδατος) Sch.Hes.Th.115); οἰκοδομημάτων Plu.Crass.2: metaph., Plot.2.2.1. 2 synizesis, melting of two vowels into one, without alteration of letters, as in πόλεως, μὴ οὐ, etc., EM735.36, Sch.Heph.2.1; but = συγκοπή, EM279.8. 3 compression of air, Hero Spir.Praef.
