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σχεδι-άζω ,
A.do a thing off-hand or on the spur of the moment, “σχεδιάζοντα λέγειν ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ” Pl.Sis. 387e: abs., play off-hand, “λαβὼν τὸ μελετητήριον, εἶτ᾽ ἐσχεδίασε δριμέως” Anaxandr.15.3, cf. Cic.Att.6.1.11; invent stories, Plb.12.4.4, D.H.1.7, D.S.1.23; improvise, Phld.Rh.1.100 S. (Pass.); give free play to the imagination, Sor.2.65.
2. act with insufficient care, τοῖς κοινοῖς πράγμασι in public affairs, Plb.22.9.12; “ἔν τινι” D.S.13.31; “πρός τι” LXX Ba.1.19.
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 (7):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.1.11
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.31
    • Polybius, Histories, 12.4.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 22.9.12
    • Old Testament, Baruch, 1.19
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.23
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.7
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