A.slanderous, backbiting, “γραῦς” Men.878, cf. Phld.Lib.p.24O.: Sup. “-ώτατος” Ar.Eq.45; διάβολόν τι, aliquid invidiae, And.2.24; “τὸ δ.” Plu.2.61d.
II. Subst., slanderer, Pi. Fr.297, Arist.Top.126a31, Ath.11.508d; enemy, LXX Es.7.4, 8.1: hence, = Sâtân, ib.1Chr.21.1; the Devil, Ev.Matt.4.1, etc.