Περιτεχνᾶσθαι
to contrive cunningly
Translated by David Whitehead6 Aug 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to be deceitful, to effect evil schemes. "For knowing clearly his intention and having come to believe that he was cunningly contriving something of this kind, they paid attention not to what he himself had said but to what they themselves suspected."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιτεχνᾶσθαι· δολιεύεσθαι, κακὰ μηχανᾶσθαι. τὴν γὰρ διάνοιαν αὐτοῦ σαφῶς εἰδότες καὶ περιτεχνᾶσθαί τι τοιοῦτον νομίσαντες οὐχ οἷς ἐκεῖνος εἶπε προσέσχον, ἀλλ' οἷς αὐτοὶ ὑπώπτευον.
Betacode
*peritexna=sqai: dolieu/esqai, kaka\ mhxana=sqai. th\n ga\r dia/noian au)tou= safw=s ei)do/tes kai\ peritexna=sqai/ ti toiou=ton nomi/santes ou)x oi(=s e)kei=nos ei)=pe prose/sxon, a)ll' oi(=s au)toi\ u(pw/pteuon.
Notes (1)
- The headword infinitive, attested only here, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
- 1Quotation (and personnel) unidentifiable. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 30 Sep 2013
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- supplemented translation, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead