connive at

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).