connive at
From LSJ
μὴ ἐν πολλοῖς ὀλίγα λέγε, ἀλλ΄ ἐν ὀλίγοις πολλά → don't say little in many words, but much in a few words (Stobaeus quoting Pythagoras)
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 (Eur., Ion, 438).
