05-31-2007, 12:46 PM | #2 | |
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This is a Homeric or Epic form and (again) breaks the normal rules of conjugations. Your confusion is justified, since the Attic conjugation would contract the epsilon and the eta [ξυνῆκε]. Homer plays around with augments quite a bit, sometimes not contracting them, sometimes leaving them off - it's usually done to maintain the dactylic hexameter.
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