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ψεύσ-της , ου, ὁ, (ψεύδω)
A.liar, cheat, Il.24.261; “ἀνὴρ ψ.” Hdt. 7.209, cf. LXX Si.15.8: c. gen. rei, ὧν . . ψεῦσται φανούμεθα wherein we shall be found to be liars, S.Ant.1195, cf. Arist.EN1127b16, AP12.70 (Mel.), Phld.Herc.1457.12.
2. Adj., = ψευδής, lying, false, “ψ. λόγος” Pi.N.5.29; ψεύστης δ᾽ οὗτος ἔπεστι λίθος, of a cenotaph, AP7.273 (Leon.); τὸν ψεύσταν δέ με τύμβον . . θέντο: τί θαῦμα; Κρῆτες ὅπου ψεῦσται, καὶ Διός ἐστι τάφος ib.275 (Gaet.), alluding to Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται, Epimenid. 1, which is cited by Call.Jov.8, Ep.Tit.1.12.
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 (5):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.209
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 1195
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.261
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 15.8
    • New Testament, Titus, 1.12
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