disentangle
From LSJ
ἢ λέγε τι σιγῆς κρεῖττον ἢ σιγὴν ἔχε → either say something better than silence or keep silence (Menander)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
P. and V. λύω, λύειν, V. ἀναπτύσσειν, ἐξελίσσειν.
make clear: P. and V. σαφηνίζειν (Xenophon but rare P.).
whenever they closed with one another they could not easily get disentangled: P. ἐπειδὴ προσβάλοιεν ἀλλήλοις οὐ ῥᾳδίως ἀπελύοντο (Thuc. 1, 49).
