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κατασοφ-ίζομαι ,
A.outwit by sophisms or fallacies, c. acc. pers., LXX Ex.1.10, Luc.DDeor.1.1, etc.; “ταῖς εὑρησιλογίαις κ. τὴν δύναμιν τῆς πεπρωμένης” D.S.17.116; “τὸν νόμον διὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κακουργίας κ.” Just. Nov.72.5: c. gen., Ael.in Ar.Byz.Epit.58.6:—also as Pass., to be outwitted, Plu.2.80c, Alex.Aphr.in SE43.22, Luc.DDeor.16.2, Longin. 17.1.
2. κ. τι περί τινων evade by quibbling, CIG(add.)4224d10 (Anticragus).
3. falsify, J.AJ8.15.5.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.116
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 8.15.5
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 1.10
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 16.2
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1.1
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