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Headword:
Phenakê
Adler number: phi,194
Translated headword: cheating
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] deceit,[1] trickery.
"[Since] they made the search with a view to clarity, and there was no cheating in the inspection [...]."[2]
Greek Original:Phenakê: apatê, dolos. es to tranes tên ereunan epoiêsanto, kai phenakê tis en têi episkopêi ouk enên.
Notes:
LSJ s.v. recognises only the primary meaning of the headword
fena/kh ("wig, toupee", as
phi 195), but the applied sense is common enough in post-classical writers; cf. in any event the related verb
fenaki/zw (
phi 196).
[1] Same glossing in ps.-
Zonaras (and ps.-Herodian).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.5.11; already in part at
tau 905.
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 September 2011@14:48:12.
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