σύνταγμα

A. that which is put together in order:

1. body of troops drawn up in order, τὸ ς. τῶν συμμάχων their contingent, X. HG 3.4.2, cf. 5.2.20; ς. ἱππέων corps of cavalry, Plb. 9.3.9; τὸ ς. τῶν πεζῶν, = Lat. cohors, Id. 11.23.1: metaph., τὸ ς. τῶν οἰμωξομένων the whole army of them, Luc. Tim. 58.

b. double τάξις or battalion, Ascl. Tact. 2.8.

2. the constitution of a state, ς. πολιτείας a form of constitution, Isoc. 7.28, 12.151; τὸ Λακωνικὸν κατάστημα καὶ ς. Plb. 6.50.2; ς. τῆς πολιτείας τρία three classes or orders of men in the state, D.S. 1.74.

3. arrangement of musical notes, scale or mode, συντάγματα τὰ μὲν Δώρια τὰ δὲ Φρύγια καλοῦσιν Arist. Pol. 1290a22; μουσικῷ ς. CIG 2722 (Stratonicea).

4. treatise, work, book, D.S. 1.3, Plu. 2.1036c, Gal. 15.490, etc.; body of doctrine, Plu. Num. 22 (pl.).

5. = σύνταξις 11.3, Aeschin. 3.95,97.

6. = σύνταξις 11.2, μάχαι αἱ κατὰ ς. battles by arrangement, i.e. matches, Ephor. 149J.

7. a word in a grammatical construction, syntactical element, A.D. Adv. 122.17.