A.mixing together, commixture, blending, tempering, Hp.VM24, E.Fr.21.4, Pl. Phlb.64d, etc.; “ἡ ς. τῶν χρωμάτων” Id.Plt. 277c; τῶν στοιχείων (heat and cold) Asclep. ap. Placit.5.21.2; ἥ τε ἐς τοὺς ὀλίγους καὶ τοὺς πολλοὺς ξ. blending of oligarchy with democracy, Th.8.97; ἡ . . ὑγρότης μὴ φέρουσα τὴν πρὸς τὸ φῶς ς. Plu.Arat.10; of friendship, Id.Ant.31, BCH49.483 (Delph.); of bodily constitution or temperament, Ptol.Tetr.8,10.
b. Astrol., combination of influence of heavenly bodies, Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.3, Ptol. Tetr.83, 121, Man.2.400.