σοφιστεύω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[play the sophist]], [[deal]] or [[argue as one]], <span class="bibl">D.61.48</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">SE</span>165a28</span>, <span class="bibl">Epicur. <span class="title">Nat.</span>14.6</span>; [[occupy oneself with academic pursuits]], <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Att.</span>2.9.3</span>, <span class="bibl">9.9.1</span>; [[practise the profession of sophist]], <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Fr.</span>172</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[give lectures]], as the Sophists did, esp. in Rhetoric, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Luc.</span>22</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Caes.</span>3</span>, etc.; ἐπ' ἀργυρίῳ Id.2.1047f: c. acc. cogn., <b class="b3">σ. τὰ ῥητορικά</b> [[lecture in]] rhetoric, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span> 1.223 S., <span class="bibl">Str.13.1.66</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> trans., [[devise artfully]], τι <span class="bibl">Hld.6.9</span>: also, [[conceal artfully]], [[dissemble]], τὸν ἔρωτα <span class="bibl">Id.1.10</span>.</span>