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Headword:
*peritexna=sqai
Adler number: pi,1322
Translated headword: to contrive cunningly
Vetting Status: high
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:*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:
The headword infinitive, attested only here, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Quotation (and personnel) unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2010@08:57:36.
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