Ἀλλ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐλπίδων ἄνδρας τὸ κέρδος πολλάκις διώλεσεν → But the profit-motive has destroyed many people in their hope for gain
Sophocles, Antigone, 221-2Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σφαλάσσω: τέμνω, κεντῶ, «σφαλάσσειν· τέμνειν, κεντεῖν» Ἡσύχ.
German (Pape)
stechen, ritzen, Hesych.
