connive at
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Σιγή ποτ' ἐστὶν αἱρετωτέρα λόγου → Sometimes silence is preferable to words → Est ubi loquelā melius est silentium → Das Schweigen ist dem Reden manchmal vorzuziehn
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
v.
Ar. and P. περιορᾶν (with part.), προΐεσθαι (with part.), V. ἀμελεῖν (with part.).
begging (them) not to connive at their destruction: P. δεόμενοι μὴ σφᾶς περιορᾶν φθειρομένους (Thuc. 1, 24).
he privily begets sons add connives at their death: V. παῖδας ἐκτεκνούμενος λάθρα θνήσκοντας ἀμελεῖ (Euripides, Ion, 438).
