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φι^λοτεχν-έω , pf. Pass. πεφιλοτέχνημαι (v. infr. 111):—
A.love art, practise an art, of Athena and Hephaestus, Pl.Prt.321e; περὶ [ἐμπειρίας] Phld.Mus.p.89K.; “περὶ τὰ ἔξω” Epict.Ench.29.7; “περὶ τὴν παρρησίαν” Plu.2.74c, etc.; “ὑπέρ τινος” Ael.VH2.2; φ. πρὸς τορευτὰς καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους τεχνίτας to converse with them on art, Plb.26.1.2; use terms of art, Phld.Sign.7.
II. use or employ art or artifice, Plb. 16.30.2, Plu.2.142b, 2.1050c, etc.: c. inf., D.S.13.82.
III. treat or arrange artistically, “συλλαβὰς ποικίλως φ.” D.H.Comp.15; represent in art, ἀγέλην (in a mosaic) Chor.1.33 p.11 F.-R., cf. 3.6 p.49 F.-R.; treat by the rules of art (i.e. alchemy), Olymp.Alch.p.91 B. (Pass.): —Pass., to be made or furnished by art, “παράδεισος τοῖς ἄλλοις πολυτελῶς πεφιλοτεχνημένος” D.S. 14.80; “πρός τι” Id.3.37; θηλὴ πεφιλοτεχνημένη an artificial teat, Sor.1.115; to be represented artistically, πᾶσα ἀπόνοια ἐν ἐκείνοις πεφιλοτέχνηται, in Trag., Jul.Or.7.211a.
IV. invent, devise, “λίνα καὶ ἄρκυς” Str.15.3.18.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.82
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.80
    • Plato, Protagoras, 321e
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.3.18
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.30.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 26.1.2
    • Epictetus, Enchiridion, 29.7
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.37
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 15
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 2.2
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