Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
(see also τεχνάζω, τεχνάομαι): contrive, device, devise, form
machinari, to contrive, devise, 1.122.1, 4.26.9, 4.47.2.