I.a wile, trick, piece of craft or subtilty, artifice, cunning device (ante-class.): “tum igitur ego deruncinatus, deartuatus sum miser Hujus scelesti technis,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 109; id. Bacch. 3, 2, 8; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 62; id. Eun. 4, 4, 51.
techna (techina , Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 23 Lorenz ad loc.; id. Poen. 4, 1, 1), ae, f., = τέχνη,