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πταῖσμα , ατος, τό, (πταίω)
A.stumble, trip, false step, mistake, Thgn. 1222 (pl.); of a horse, Plu.2.549c, etc.; in writing, Longin.33.4 (pl.).
2. error, fault, J.AJ7.7.1; τῆς ἀνοσιουργίας ἀσεβῆ π. Iamb. Myst.3.31.
II. failure, misfortune, euphem. for defeat, “ἢν σφέας καταλάβῃ π. πρὸς τὸν Πέρσην” Hdt.7.149; συμβαίνει π. [τινί] D.10.13, cf. Aeschin.3.164; ἄν τι γένηται π. D.Ep.3.18; τὸ τῆς τύχης π. Phld. Vit.p.22J.; “περὶ τὴν ναυμαχίαν” D.S.11.15.
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 (6):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 164
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 4, 13
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.15
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.149
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 7.7.1
    • Demosthenes, Letters, 3.18
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