συνάγω

• ξυνάγω (xunágō)

From συν- (sun-, “with, together”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “lead, guide”).

συνάγω • (sunágō)

1. (of persons, animals, etc.) to bring together, gather together
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.87, (Compare Herodotus, Histories 2.111, 3.150)
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.60
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 562
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 468
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1640, (Compare Aristophanes, Lysistrata 585)
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.84
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 256C, (Compare Theaetetus 194B)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.11.4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.15.8
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.14.12
   1. to bring together for deliberation or festivity
      • Batrachomyomachia 134
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.85
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.59
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
      • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 1
   2. (in a hostile sense) to join battle
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.381
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.861
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.448
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 57D:

        πόλεμον συνάγω

        pólemon sunágō

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      1. to match two warriors against one another
         • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 508
         • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Poplicola 9
         • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.82, (Compare Polybius, The Histories 11.18.4)
      2. to collect or levy soldiers
         • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.5
   3. to bring together, join in one, unite
      • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 507
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 756
      • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 644, (Compare Aristophanes, The Acharnians 991)
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.36
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.64
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 365D
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 625E
   4. to bring together, make friends of, reconcile
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.4.18
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 42, (Compare Plato, The Statesman 311C)
   5. to collect oneself
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Philopoemen 20
   6. to lead with one, receive
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Kings 11.27, (Compare 19 15)
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 25:35
2. (of things) gather together, collect

   300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 1:9:

   Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεός· συναχθήτω τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εἰς συναγωγὴν μίαν, καὶ ὀφθήτω ἡ ξηρά. καὶ ἐγένετο οὕτως. καὶ συνήχθη τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εἰς τὰς συναγωγὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ ὤφθη ἡ ξηρά.

   Kaì eîpen ho Theós; sunakhthḗtō tò húdōr tò hupokátō toû ouranoû eis sunagōgḕn mían, kaì ophthḗtō hē xērá. kaì egéneto hoútōs. kaì sunḗkhthē tò húdōr tò hupokátō toû ouranoû eis tàs sunagōgàs autôn, kaì ṓphthē hē xērá.

   And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And the water under the sky was gathered together into its places, and the dry land appeared.

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.291
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.296
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.8
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.119
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.11.14
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.2.5
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 6:26
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 311C
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostiches 196
   • 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, The Painter 2.28
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.2, (Compare Plato, The Republic 488A)
   1. 1. (of a historical writer) summarize
         • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 285B
         • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 319B
         • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 811A, (Compare The Sophist 251D)
         • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 47.26
         • Diogenes Laërtius 4.33
   2. to draw together, so as to make the extremities meet
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.113
      • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 290
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.125, (Compare 1.63)
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.52
      • 420 BCE – 380 BCE, Timaeus of Locri, Collected Works 101B
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 8.4.3
      1. to draw together, narrow, contract
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.23
         • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.93.5
         • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.3.11
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.17.3
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 2.1.9
         • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 477E
         • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 752
         • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 823
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 31.7.6
         • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 3.5, (Compare Aristophanes, The Knights 1348)
      2. (figuratively)
         • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, On Hannibal 60
         • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 1.18.7, (and v. 10)
   3. to collect or club things for a picnic
      • Diphil., The Painter 2.28
   4. to collect from premises, i.e. to conclude, infer, draw an inference
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.2.13
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.22.15
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 7.1.1
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.15.8
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.15.33, (Compare Lucian, How to Write History 16)
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 2.12.7
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.6
   5. (passive voice) to be carried along with
      • 420 BCE – 380 BCE, Timaeus of Locri, Collected Works 98E
   6. to bring about
      • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Bella Civilia 1.101
      • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Bella Civilia 5.145

• (match two warriors): συμβάλλω (sumbállō), συνίημι (suníēmi)

• “συνάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συνάγω in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• συνάγω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4863 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible