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σύστα^σις , εως, ἡ, (συνίστημι)
A.bringing together, introduction, recommendation, πατρικὴν ἔχων ς. Plb.1.78.1; ἡ πρός τινα ς. Id.4.82.3, cf. SIG591.62 (Lampsacus. ii B.C.), D.H.Rh.5.2, Plu.Them.27; “ς. τῆς πρός τινα εὐνοίας” J.AJ15.b.7; care, guardianship, ἔτινηπίας οὔσας （ἀπέδωκεν[̣]）“ εἰς σύστασιν Πτολεμαίῳ Γλαυκίου” UPZ20.23 (ii B.C.); power of attorney, PTeb.317.14 (ii A.D.), etc.
2. communication between a man and a god, “ταῦτα σοῦ εἰπόντος τρίς, σημεῖον ἔσται τῆς συστάσεως τόδε” PMag.Par.1.209, cf. 220,260, al., PMag.Lond.47.1,121.505.
3. protection, ἵνα διὰ τῆς σῆς δεξιᾶς ᾖ μοι ς. PSI6.717.12 (ii A.D.).
II. proof, Alex.Aphr.in Metaph.12.3, 409.16; confirmation, εἰς σύστασιν [τῶν ἀξιωμάτων] καὶ πίστιν ib.271.14; “ς. καὶ πίστεις τινός” Hermog. Id.1.10; “πρὸς σύστασιν καὶ ἀσφάλειαν ἐπωμοσάμην” PLond.1.77.62 (vi A.D.), cf. BGU1187.31 (i B.C.).
B. (συνίσταμαι) standing together, close combat, conflict, “ἐν τῇ ς. μάχεσθαι” Hdt.6.117, cf. 7.167; ἡ ἐν ταῖς συμπλοκαῖς μάχη καὶ ς. Pl.Lg.833a; “ἡ ἐκ ς. μάχη” Hdn.4.15.3; “ὅταν . . σύστασιν ὁ ἀγὼν ἔχῃ” Plu.Demetr.16, cf. Aem.20: metaph., disturbance in the human body, “καθάρσεων καὶ συστάσεων τοῦ σώματος ἀρίστη ἡ διὰ τῶν γυμνασίων” Pl. Ti.89a; “καταστεῖλαι τὴν ς. τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ γυμνασίου” Antyll. ap. Orib.6.26.5; ς. ὅλου τοῦ σώματος (as a plague-symptom) Ruf. ap. eund.44.17.2; ξ. τῆς γνώμης conflict of mind, intense anxiety, Th.7.71; “μένος μὲν ξ. τε σῶν φρενῶν δεινή” E.Hipp.983; so “ἤν τις πόνος ἢ ς. γίνηται τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ” Hp.Morb.Sacr.17 vulg. (f.l. for τάσις).
2. meeting, accumulation, e.g. of humours, “ς. οὑγροῦ περὶ τὴν ὑπερῴην” Id.Coac.233; of water. Thphr.CP5.14.5 (pl.), cf. D.S.3.36; of winds, ib. 51, POxy.1768.9 (iii A.D., dub.): metaph., “λόγων” Pl.R.457e; combination, “τραγῳδίαν . . εἶναι τὴν τούτων ς. πρέπουσαν ἀλλήλοις” Id.Phdr. 268d.
3. knot of men assembled, E.Andr.1088 (pl.), Heracl.415 (pl.); κατὰ ξυστάσεις γιγνόμενοι forming into knots, Th.2.21, cf. X. Eq.7.19.
b. political union, more general than ἑταιρεία or σύνοδος, Isoc.3.54, cf. D.45.67; ἐθνικαὶ ς. national unions, Plb.23.1.3; “κατὰ συστάσεις κωμάζειν” D.C.Fr.39.7.
c. contingent of four light-armed λόχοι (32 men), Ascl.Tact.6.3, Arr.Tact.14.3, Ael.Tact.16.1.
4. friendship or alliance, Plb.1.78.2; “πρός τινας” Id.3.78.2; conspiracy, “ἐπί τινα” Plu.Pyrrh.23.
II. composition, structure, constitution of a person or a thing, “τῶ κόσμω” Ti.Locr.99d, cf. Pl.Ti.32c; τῶν ὡρῶν, τῆς ψυχῆς, Id.Smp.188a, Ti.36d; of the parts of an animal, Arist.PA646a20, GA744b28, al.; “σώματος” Sor.1.111; “τῶν ἀτόμων” Epicur.Nat.35 G.; ἡ περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ς. Pl.Ti.75b; φυσικὴ ς. Arist. Cat.9b18; “ἡ ς. τῆς πόλεως” Id.Pol.1295b28, cf. 1332a30; “τῶν πραγμάτων” Id.Po.1450a15; τοῦ μύθου ib.1452a18; abs., plot of a drama, ib. 1453a31; “τὴν ς. ἔχειν ἐκ τοῦ ψεύδους” Phld.Rh.1.361 S.; περὶ τρόπων συστάσεως, title of work by Chrysipp.; προσώπου ς. expression of face, Plu.Per.5.
b. abs., political constitution, Pl.R.546a, Lg. 702d, etc.
c. χωρίον ἀμπελικὸν ἐν συστάσει ἀρουρῶν ὅσων ἐστίν consisting of . . , PGiss.56.7 (vi A.D.).
2. coming into existence, formation, “νόσων” Pl.Ti.89b, cf. c; “πόλεων ς. καὶ φθοράς” Id.Lg.782a; ἡ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τῶν ὅλων ς. D.S.1.7, cf. Plu.2.427b; “τὴν ς. λαμβάνειν” Arist.HA547b14, Plb.6.4.13, etc.; of a river, “τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς ς. λαμβάνειν” Id.9.43.1; “ς. ἐπιβουλῆς” Id.6.7.8.
3. of bodies, density or consistency, πυκνότης καὶ ς., opp. ὑγρότης καὶ διάχυσις, Thphr.Vent. 58; “ς. καὶ πῆξις” Plu.2.130b; degree of solidity, consistency, “σπέρμα . . τρυφερὰν ἔτι καὶ νεοπαγῆ τὴν ς. ἔχον” Sor.1.46, cf. 58; solid knot or lump, [μαστοὶ] θρομβώδεις συστάσεις ἔχοντες ib.88; “μέχρι συστάσεως ἐμπλαστρώδους ἑψηθέν” Gal.11.134, cf. 6.249, Dsc.3.7; “τὰ ὑδατωδῶς ὑγρὰ πάχος καὶ ς. μηδεμίαν ἔχοντα” Gal.16.761; λεαίνεται μέχρι ς. Orib.Fr.55.
4. a substance, πλάττειν ἐκ πηλοῦ ζῷον ἤ τινος ἄλλης ὑγρᾶς ς. Arist.PA654b30, cf. Plu.2.696a; ξηραὶ ς. Arist.HA519b19.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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