Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, τεχν-άομαι

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II. contrive or execute cunningly, “ταῦτα δ᾽ ἐγὼν . . τεχνήσομαι” Il.23.415, etc.; “χερσὶν ἁτεχνησάμην” S.Tr. 534, cf. 928; “τῶν μηδὲν ὀρθῶς . . τεχνωμένων” Id.Ant.494; “τ. κακά” Id.Ph.80; “πόλεμος ἀφ᾽ αὑτοῦ τὰ πολλὰ τεχνᾶται πρὸς τὸ παρατυγχάνον” Th.1.122: abs., γένοιτο μέντἂν πᾶν θεοῦ τεχνωμένου if God contrives, S.Aj.86, cf. E.Med.369,382,402, Ar.V.176: c. inf., contrive how to do, Th.4.26; so also, followed by a clause, contrive or devise means for doing, “τεχνήσομαι ὥς κε γένηται παῖς ἐμός” h.Ap.326; “τ. τί ἂν φάγοι” X.Ages.9.3.

2. in pass. sense, ὁ ἐπὶ κακῷ τεχνηθεὶς δόλος Sch.Il.15.14.

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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