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κλοπ-ή , ἡ, (κλέπτω)
A.theft, “ἁρπαγῆς τε καὶ κλοπῆς δίκη” A.Ag.534: pl., ib.402 (lyr.), E.Hel.1175; “κλοπῆς δίκη” Pl.Prt.322a; “ἱερῶν κλοπῆς δυοῖν ταλάντοιν γεγραμμένος” Antipho 2.1.6, cf. Ar.Eq.444, Pl.Euthphr.5d (pl.); “κλοπῆς ὀφλεῖν” And.1.74; “ἐπὶ κλοπῇ χρημάτων ἀποκτείνειν” Lys.30.25; “κ. τῶν θησαυρῶν” PAmh.2.79.63 (ii A.D.); “σκεῦος . . ἐκφέρειν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐπὶ κλοπήν” SIG997.5 (Smyrna); “κλοπῆς ἐν ταῖς εὐθύναις ἑάλωκεν” D.24.112, cf. Arist.Ath.54.2, Plu.Per.32; opp. ἁρπαγή, Pl.Lg. 941b.
2. of authors, plagiarism, Porph. ap. Eus.PE10.3.
II. secret act or transaction, fraud, “κλέπτουσα μύθοις κλοπάς” E.HF100; “πράγματος μεγάλου κ.” Aeschin.2.57; κλοπῇ by stealth or fraud, S.Ph. 1025, E.Ion1254; ποδοῖν κλοπὰν ἀρέσθαι, i.e. to steal away, S.Aj. 246 (lyr.).
III. in warfare, surprise, X.An.4.6.14.
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 (19):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 57
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 402
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 534
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 74
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 1.6
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 444
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 54.2
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 112
    • Euripides, Helen, 1175
    • Euripides, Heracles, 100
    • Euripides, Ion, 1254
    • Lysias, Against Nicomachus, 25
    • Plato, Laws, 941b
    • Plato, Euthyphro, 5d
    • Plato, Protagoras, 322a
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 246
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1025
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.6.14
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 32
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