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ἀπα?́τ-η , ἡ,
A.trick, fraud, deceit, “νῦν δὲ κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατο” Il.2.114, cf. 4.168: in pl., wiles, οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλες . . λήξειν ἀπατάων, says Athena to Ulysses, Od.13.294, cf. Il.15.31; “σκολιαὶ ἀπάται” Pi.Fr.213.
2. guile, treachery, “ἄταν ἀπάτᾳ μεταγνούς” A.Supp.111, cf. S.OC230; “ἀπάτης δικαίας οὐκ ἀποστατεῖ θεός” A.Fr.301, cf. Pers.93; “ἀ. ἐρώτων” S.Ant.617; “διαβολὴ καὶ ἀ.” Antipho 6.7, etc.; ἀ. εὐπρεπής, opp. βία ἐμφανής, Th.4.86; “ἢ βίᾳ ἢ ἀπάτῃ” 2.39; ἀ. λεχέων a being cheated out of the marriage, S.Ant.630; ἄνευ δόλου καὶ ἀπάτης 'without fraud or covin', Hdt.1.69; “μετὰ σκότους καὶ ἀ.” Pl.Lg.864c.
3. Ἀπάτη, personified, Hes. Th.224, Luc.Merc.Cond.42.
II. beguiling of time, pastime (not Att., Moer.65), Plb.4.20.5; “ψυχῆς” Dicaearch.1.1; “ψυχαγωγίαι καὶ ἀπάται τῆς πόλεως” D.Chr.32.5.
III. as name of a plant, f.l. for ἀπάπη (q.v.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 7
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