The abstract noun texnitei/a is a rare one; apart from this entry, it is also found in Epicurus, Letter to Pythocles 93.11-12(= Diogenes Laertius 10.93.11-12): mh\ fobou/menos ta\s a)ndrapodw/deis a)strolo/gwn texnitei/as ("not fearing the servile artifices of astrologers"); Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos 5.86.5-6: pollh=s ga\r h)=n texnitei/as to\ pra=gma ("for the matter called for much artifice"); Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.130A (4.5 Kaibel): qaumazo/ntwn d’ h(mw=n th\n texnitei/an ("admiring our artifice"); Corpus Hermeticum fr. 23.14.3-4(= Stobaeus, Florilegium 1.49.44.88-89): ou(/tws ei)s tau=ta h)/rcato texnitei/as ("so he began artifices in regard to these").