Anc. Pros. [late L., ad. Gr. συνάφεια connection, f. συναφής connected, united (cf. prec.).] Continuity of rhythm; maintenance of the same rhythm throughout, esp. in anapæstic verse.
1827. Tate, Grk. Metres, in Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2), 431. The synaphea (or συνάφεια), that property of the Anapestic system which Bentley first demonstrated, is … scansion continued with strict exactness from the first syllable to the very last, but not including the last itself, as that … may be long or short.
1851. Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Supplices, 8, note. The law of anapaestic synaphea is violated by a dactyl coming before an anapaest.
