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δόλος (A), ὁ, prop.
A.bait for fish, Od.12.252: hence, any cunning contrivance for deceiving or catching, as the net in which Hephaestus catches Ares, 8.276; the Trojan horse, ib.494; Ixion's bride, Pi. P.2.39; the robe of Penelope, Od.19.137 (pl.); ξύλινος δ. mouse-trap, Batr.116.
b. generally, any trick or stratagem, “πυκινὸν δ. ἄλλον ὕφαινε” Il.6.187, etc.: in pl., wiles, “δόλοι καὶ μήδεα” 3.202; “δόλοισι κεκασμένε” 4.339, etc.
2. in the abstract, craft, cunning, treachery, “δόλῳ ἠὲ βίῃφι” Od.9.406; “ἔπεφνε δόλῳ, οὔ τι κράτεΐ γε” Il.7.142; οὐ κατ᾽ ἰσχὺν . . δόλῳ δέ . . A.Pr.215, cf. Ch.556, etc.; δόλοις ib.888, S.OT960, etc.; “ἐκ δόλου” Id.El.279; “ἐν δόλῳ” Id.Ph.102; “σὺν δόλῳ” A.Pers.775; “μετὰ δόλου καὶ τέχνης” Isoc.9.36; δόλῳ πονηρῷ, = Lat. dolo malo, Supp.Epigr.1.161.53; “μετὰ δόλου πονηροῦ” IG12(2).510.9 (Methymna); “χωρὶς δ. π.” OGI629.112 (Palmyra).
3. spy, Hsch.
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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