συνεχής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ές, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[holding together]]: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> of Space, [[continuous]], <span class="bibl">Parm. 8.6</span>,<span class="bibl">25</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1069a5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ph.</span>200b18</span>, al.; of quantity, opp. [[διωρισμένος]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cat.</span>4b20</span>; σ. νῶτον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>616e</span>; <b class="b3">συνεχὲς ποικίλον</b> a [[continuity]] of [[variety]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phd.</span>110d</span>; σ. οἰκήματα <span class="bibl">Th.3.21</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> c. dat., [[continuous with]] or [[contiguous to]], [[in a line with]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.22</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span> 226</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>339a22</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mu.</span>392a23</span>, etc.: less freq. c. gen., ib.<span class="bibl">393a29</span> (s. v.l.); τομαὶ σ. ἀπὸ μιᾶς μέχρι τῶν δέκα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>738a</span>: abs., σ. ἦσαν Κίλικες <span class="bibl">Plb.30.25.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Str.11.6.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of words, etc., ξ. [[ῥῆσις]] <span class="bibl">Th.5.85</span>; πᾶς ὁ σ. λόγος <span class="bibl">Plb.1.5.5</span>; <b class="b3">τούτῳ συνάπτοντες τὸ συνεχές</b> <span class="bibl">Id.3.3.2</span>; [[τὸ συνεχές]] = [[connection]] of [[letter]]s, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lys.</span>19</span>: c. dat., λόγος σ. τῷ νυνδὴ γενόμενος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ep.</span>318e</span>; σκέψις σ. τοῖς πρότερον <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span> 6.3.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> Math., of [[proportions]], συνεχὴς [[ἀναλογία]] [[continued]] [[proportion]] (opp. [[διῃρημένη]]), i.e. three terms in [[geometrical]] [[progression]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1131a33</span>, <span class="bibl">Archim.<span class="title">Aequil.</span>2.9</span>; κατὰ τὸ συνεχὲς ἀνάλογον Id.<span class="title">Sph. Cyl.</span>2.5, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[successive]], of integers as terms in a series, <span class="title">Theol.Ar.</span>54; of middle terms in argument, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APo.</span>87b6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> of things, [[continuous]], [[conjoined]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>509b13</span>, etc.; folld. by a Prep., <b class="b3">σ. πρός τι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">495b20</span>; of substance, [[clinging]], [[dense]], τὸ [[γλίσχρασμα]] [τῆς πτισάνης] λεῖον καὶ σ… ἐστι <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>10</span>, cf. Gal. 6.822; [[ἀήρ]], [[ἔλαιον]], Plu.2.396a,696b; <b class="b3">τὸ πυκνὸν καὶ συνεχές</b> ib.701f; [γάλα] λεῖον καὶ ὁμαλὸν καὶ σ. ἑαυτῷ <span class="bibl">Sor.1.91</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> of Time, [[continuous]], [[unintermitting]], συνεχὴς [[πυρετός]], opp. [[διαλείπων]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>3.21</span>; sometimes distd. from συνεχὴς [[πυρετός]], Anon. ap. Gal.17(1).220; σ. καύματα καὶ πυρετούς <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Ti.</span>86a</span>; ([[θερμότης]]) <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Ign.</span>33</span>; κίνησις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lass.</span>15</span>; πόνος συνεχέστερος <span class="bibl">Th.7.81</span>; <b class="b3">πόλεμος διὰ βίου συνεχής</b> <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>625e</span>; [[συνουσία]], [[βασιλεία]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>8.18</span> (Comp.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ages.</span>1.4</span>; πότοι <span class="bibl">Men.914</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Sophil. 3</span>; σ. κακοπαθίαι <span class="title">OGI</span>244.12 (Daphne, ii B.C.); <b class="b3">σ. γίνεσθαι, πνεῖν</b>, of winds, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>362a11</span>,<span class="bibl">26</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Vent.</span>1</span>; τὸ ἀκρίτως ξ. τῆς ἁμίλλης <span class="bibl">Th.7.71</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ σ. ἔργου</b> (prob. for [[ἔργον]]) <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.63</span>; <b class="b3">τοῦ δήμου τὸ συνεχές</b> [[continuous]] [[intercourse]] with . ., <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Per.</span>7</span>; [[κατὰ τὸ συνεχές]] = [[continuously]], <span class="bibl">Plb. 2.2.7</span>; [[consecutively]], [[in what follows]], Gal.15.116; <b class="b3">ἐκ τούτου κατὰ τὸ συνεχές</b> [[immediately]] [[after]] [[that]], ib.902. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[frequent]], <b class="b3">τῶν ὀρνίθων ἥκιστα συνεχὴς καὶ συνήθης [ὁ γύψ</b>] Plu.2.286a; λουτροῖς συνεχέσι χρῆσθαι <span class="bibl">Sor.1.65</span>; <b class="b3">χάσμη σ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">24</span>; <b class="b3">συνεχεστέρα ἔστω ἡ ἐκμύζησις</b> ib.<span class="bibl">97</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> of persons, [[constant]], [[persevering]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>21.9</span>; ἐν ταῖς . . πρὸς τὰ πάθη διαμάχαις Plu.2.74c; cf. <span class="bibl">Poll.4.20</span>, <span class="bibl">6.147</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">B</span> Adv. [[συνεχῶς]], Ep. and Ion. [[συνεχέως]] (v. sub fin.): </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> mostly of Time, [[continually]], [[continuously]], [[unremittingly]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>636</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt. 7.16</span>.γ, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>1008</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.57.54, etc.; ξυνεχῶς πολεμεῖν <span class="bibl">Th.2.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.11</span>, <span class="bibl">5.24</span>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 6.44</span>; συνεχέως [[αἰεί]] <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.67</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>706a</span>; <b class="b3">ἀεὶ συνεχῶς</b> ib.<span class="bibl">807e</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ συνεχῶς ἐτῶν οὐκ ὀλίγων ἐφεξῆς γενόμενοι</b> (v.l. [[γιν-]]) λιμοί Gal.6.749: Comp. [[συνεχέστερον]] <span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Pron.</span>65.17</span>: Sup. [[συνεχέστατα]] <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.2.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[without leaving an interval]], [[immediately]], ἐπίθυε... καὶ λέγε τὸν λόγον συνεχῶς τὸν τῆς ἐπικλήσεως <span class="title">PMag.Par.</span>1.1865, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>451.15</span> (i/ii A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFlor.</span>332.18</span> (ii A.D.); δίδοται πρὸς τὰ θανάσιμα σ. πινόμενον καὶ ἐξεμούμενον Dsc.1.30; <b class="b3">βδέλλας καύσας καὶ λεάνας χρῶ σ. προεκτίλας</b> (sc. superfluous eyelashes) <span class="bibl">Aët.7.69</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> [[at frequent intervals]], ἵνα μὴ σ. λούηται τὸ βρέφος <span class="bibl">Sor.1.99</span>; <b class="b3">μελίκρατον σ. ἐνστάζομεν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">123</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ βρέφη συνεχέστερον ἐξερᾷ [τὸ γάλα] . . ναυτιῶντα</b> ib.<span class="bibl">109</span>; ποτίζων συνεχέστερον ἐκ διαστημάτων <span class="title">Gp.</span>10.18.5; [[συνεχέστερον]] = [[saepius]], Gloss.; [[συνεχέστατα]] = [[saepissime]], ib. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> freq. with Numbers, [[in succession]], [[consecutively]], <b class="b3">ὁρμαθοὺς μελῶν ἐφεξῆς τέτταρας ξ</b>. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>915</span>; <b class="b3">ἡμέρας ἑβδομήκοντα ξ</b>. <span class="bibl">Th.2.75</span>; <b class="b3">μῆνας ὀκτὼ σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Ephipp.5.15</span> (anap.); similarly, <b class="b3">οὐ σ. ἐφεξῆς ἐν τάξει πεποιημένος [τὸν λόγον</b>] Gal.15.496. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> rarely of Space, σ. εἶναι πᾶσαν οἰκουμένην <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span> 362b29</span>; σ. μέχρι . . <span class="bibl">Plb.2.14.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[συνεχές]] as Adv. freq. in Ep., as <span class="bibl">Il.12.26</span>; strengthd., [[συνεχὲς αἰεί]] = [[unceasing]] [[ever]], <span class="bibl">Od.9.74</span>; also in <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">I.</span>4(3).65(83)</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>21</span>, and freq. in later Ep., <span class="bibl">Arat.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Ap.</span>60</span>, etc.; also in later Prose, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Somn.</span>4</span>, <span class="bibl">D.L.2.32</span>, al. [[συνεχές]] Hom. ll. cc. and [[συνεχέως]] Hes. l. c., <span class="bibl">B.5.113</span>, metri gr.; also <span class="bibl">Theoc.20.12</span>, <span class="bibl">A.R.1.1271</span>.]</span>