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Headword:
Technazein
Adler number: tau,439
Translated headword: to contrive
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to accomplish something knavishly.[1] "The business [is] clever and very much in your style; for the prize-cake of [= for] contrivance [is] ours." The
puramou=s [is] a kind of flat-cake; this used to be set as a prize for those keeping an all-nighter, and he who was awake until dawn used to receive it as victor. So figuratively [
Aristophanes] used it as of his [
Euripides'] surpassing everyone in rascality.
Greek Original:Technazein: to panourgôs ti diaprattesthai. to pragma kompson kai sphodr' ek tou sou tropou: tou gar technazein hêmeteros ho puramous. eidos plakountos ho puramous: houtos de etitheto tois diapannuchizousin epathlon, kai ho egrêgorôs heôs prôïas hôs nikôn auton elambane. metaphorikôs oun autôi echrêsato hôs nikôntos autou panourgiai pantas.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; food; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 January 2014@01:06:10.
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