στρεψοδικέω
Ἕωθεν προλέγειν ἑαυτῷ: συντεύξομαι περιέργῳ, ἀχαρίστῳ, ὑβριστῇ, δολερῷ, βασκάνῳ, ἀκοινωνήτῳ: πάντα ταῦτα συμβέβηκεν ἐκείνοις παρὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν. → When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. | Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.
English (LSJ)
A twist or pervert the right, Ar.Nu.434.
German (Pape)
[Seite 954] das Recht verdrehen, Ar. Nub. 433.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
στρεψοδῐκέω: διαστρέφω, μεταβάλλω, τροποποιῶ τὸ ὀρθὸν, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 435· καὶ στρεψοδῐκοπᾰνουργία, ἡ, πανουργία ἐν τῇ διαστοφῇ τοῦ δικαίου, ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Ὄρν. 1468, ἴδε στρεφοδικοπανουργία.
