σύνδεσμος

suvndesmo" suvndesmo",
sundesmou,
oJ (
sundevw);1. that which binds together, a band, bond: of the ligaments by which the members of the human body are united together (Euripides, Hipp. 199; Tim. Locr., p. 100 b. (i. e., 3, 3, p. 386, Bekker edition); Aristotle, h. a. 10, 7, 3, p. 638b, 9; Galen), (where see Lightfoot); tropically:
tw'/
sundevsmw/
th'"
eijrhvnh", i. e.
th'/
eijrhvnh
wJ"
sundevsmw/, (
suvndesmo"
eujnoiva"
kaiv
filiva", Plutarch, );
h{ti"
ejsti
suvndesmo"
th'"
teleiovthto", that in which all the virtues are so bound together that perfection is the result, and not one of them is lacking to that perfection, (cf. Lightfoot at the passage).
eij"
suvndesmon
ajdikiva"
oJrw'
se
o[nta, I see that you have fallen into (cf.
eijmiv, V. 2 a., p. 179a, and see below) the bond of iniquity, i. e. forged by iniquity to fetter souls, (the phrase
suvndesmon
ajdikiva" occurs in another sense in ).2. that which is bound together, a bundle: properly,
suvndesmo"
ejpistolw'n, Herodian, 4, 12, 11 (6, Bekker edition); hence, some interpreters think that by
suvndesmon
ajdikiva", in above, Simon is described as a bundle of iniquity, compacted as it were of iniquity (just as Cicero, in Pison. 9, 21 calls a certain man animal ex omnium scelerum importunitate ... concretum); but besides the circumstance that this interpretation is extremely bold, no examples can be adduced of this tropical use of the noun.*