συντέλεια [4 verses](noun sg fem nom) "End" is synteleia, which means "joint contribution for the public burdens," "(compulsory) provision of recruits," "a body of citizens who contributed jointly to bear public burdens," generally, "company," "the consummation of a scheme," "an end of," "full realization," "unjust gain," and, in Grammar, "completed action."  -- (CW) The word translated as "end" means literally "to bring together for a goal." It means the accomplishment of a shared purpose, so "culmination." It does not mean "end" in the sense of "destruction" of anything since it has the opposite sense of "accomplishment."