σύνοδος

A. assembly, meeting, esp. for deliberation, Orac. ap. Hdt. 9.43, And. 1.47, Th. 1.96,119, IG 42(1).68.93 (Epid., iv B.C.), etc.; ξ. Ἀχαιῶν E. Hec. 107 (anap.); ς. κώμης BGU 1648.6 (ii A.D.); ς. συλλεγῆναι Hdt. 9.27; ποιῆσαι Ar. Th. 301 (prose decree); ἀπὸ κοινῶν ξ. βουλεύειν Th. 1.97; ἐκ τῶν ξ. Id. 5.17; ς. πρὸς τῷ διαιτητῇ meeting of parties in court, D. 54.29: pl., of political clubs or conspiracies, Sol. 4.22, Ar. Eq. 477, Th. 3.82, Pl. Tht. 173d; ἑταιρείας μὴ ποιεῖσθε μηδὲ ς. Isoc. 3.54; also of private meetings or gatherings for discussion, διαλεκτικαὶ ς. Arist. Top. 159a32; of synods of the church, Cod.Just. 1.1.7.12.

2. national gathering, Th. 3.104, Pl. Smp. 197d; αἱ ἀρχαῖαι θυσίαι καὶ ς. Arist. EN 1160a26: hence, society for festal purposes, τῶν ἐρανιστῶν IG 22.1369.32; τῶν μυστῶν SIG 851.25 (Smyrna, ii A.D.); τῶν Ἀσκλαπιαστᾶν IG 42(1).679 (Epid.).

3. company, guild, τεχνιτᾶν SIG 698.1 (Delph., ii B.C.); [συγγεωργῶν] Sammelb. 7457.5,9 (ii B.C.); athletic club, OGI 486.17 (Pergam., ii A.D.), 713.9 (Alexandria, iii A.D.); ἡ ἱερὰ ξυστικὴ περιπολιστικὴ . . ς. PLond. 3.1178.38 (ii A.D.), cf. POxy. 908.9 (ii A.D.), IG 22.1350.

4. in hostile sense, meeting of two armies, Ar. Ra. 1532, Th. 3.107, 5.70, X. An. 1.10.7, etc.

5. = συνουσία, sexual intercourse, Arist. HA 541a31, Clearch. 49, Ph. 1.148, Plu. Lyc. 15, Gal. 15.47.

II. of things, coming together, constriction, κυάνεαι σύνοδοι θαλάσσας, of the straits of the Bosporus, E. IT 393 (lyr.); ἡ ς. τοῦ πλησίον ἀλλήλων τεθῆναι the coming together resulting from juxtaposition, Pl. Phd. 97a; ἡ τῆς πιλήσεως ς. Id. Ti. 58b; ἡ τοῦ ὕδατος ς., viz. ice, ib.61a; ὅσον διαχυτικὸν . . τῶν περὶ τὸ στόμα ς. whatever relaxes . . constriction in the organ of taste, ib. 60b; ἀναγκαῖον τῶν τοιούτων γίνεσθαι σύνοδον, ἀλλ’ οὐ διὰ ψύξιν Arist. GA 764b7; ἡ εἰς αὑτὸν ς. contraction of a muscle, Gal. UP 12.8, cf. Id. 4.391; ἡ ς. ἡ κατὰ [τὴν οὐσίαν] λεγομένη the union of matter and form, viz. the concrete object, Arist. Metaph. 1033b17; concourse, assemblage, παθῶν Longin. 10.3; of the parts of the foetus, Sor. 2.64; combination of numbers, Theol.Ar. 8; σημείων Gal. 16.505.

2. Astron., conjunction, τῶν πλανήτων καὶ πρὸς αὑτοὺς καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀπλανεῖς Arist. Mete. 343b30; of the sun and moon, Plu. 2.269c, IG 14.2126 (Rome); ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης Gal. 18(2).240; ς. ἐκλειπτικὴ σελήνης πρὸς ἥλιον Plu. Rom. 12; αἱ ς., of the times of new moon, Zeno Stoic. 1.34; αἱ τῶν μηνῶν ς. ψυχραὶ διὰ τὴν τῆς σελήνης ἀπόλειψιν Arist. GA 738a20, cf. Thphr. Sign. 5, LXX De. 33.14.

3. Gramm., construction, A.D. Synt. 28.11, al.

III. incoming of revenue, χρημάτων σύνοδοι Hdt. 1.64; revenues, ἀπὸ τῶν ς. IG 11(4).1217 (Delos); τῶν φερόντων τὴν ς. τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ ξενίου ib.22.1012.15 (ii B.C.); οἱ τὴν ς. φέροντες τῷ θεῷ ib.22.1326.6. (Written sunhod-, i.e. συνὁδ‐, in a Latin inscr., CIL 12.2519.2,3,4 (i B.C.(?)); also synhod-, ib.6, IG 14.2495 (Nemausus), CIL 12.3183 (ibid.), 6.10117 (Rome).)