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|Definition=-ατος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[acquired skill]], [[method]], in medicine, Hp.''Loc.Hom.''41.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[clever device]], [[ingenious contrivance]], Pi.''O.''13.17 (pl.); σ. [[μηχανᾶσθαι]] Hdt.3.85; <b class="b3">σ. καὶ μηχαναί</b> ib.152; ἀριθμὸν ἔξοχον σοφισμάτων A.''Pr.''459; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἔχω σόφισμα ὅτῳ.. πημονῆς ἀπαλλαγῶ</b> ib.470; <b class="b3">μὴ.. κἀκχέω τὸ πᾶν σόφισμα</b> S.''Ph.''14; <b class="b3">τὸ Θεσσαλὸν σόφισμα</b> a [[trick]] in [[fighting]], v. [[Θεσσαλός]]; πολλαῖσι μορφαῖς οἱ θεοὶ σοφισμάτων σφάλλουσιν [[ἡμᾶς]] E.''Fr.''972; <b class="b3">τέχναι.. καὶ σ.</b> Ar.''Pl.''160; τὸ γὰρ σόφισμα δημοτικόν Id.''Nu.''205; πρὸς μὲν Σωκράτη.. τὸ σ. μοι οὐδέν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Symposium|Smp.]]'' 214a; τὸ σ. τὸ τοῦ δρεπάνου Id.''La.''183d.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in less good sense, [[sly trick]], [[artifice]], [[δίκην]] δοῦναι σ. κακῶν E.''Ba.''489, cf. ''Hec.''258; <b class="b3">ἐφ' ἡμᾶς ταὐτὰ παρόντα σ.</b> Th.6.77, cf. D.35.2; [[stage-trick]], [[claptrap]], Ar.''Ra.''17, 872, 1104; of [[trick]]s in [[government]], Arist.''Pol.''1297a35, 1308a2; in cookery, X.''Hier.''1.23 (pl.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[captious argument]], [[quibble]], [[sophism]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 496a, D.25.18, Epicur.''Nat.''28.9, etc.; <b class="b3">περὶ σοφισμάτων</b>, title of work by [[Chrysippus]]; σόφισμα τῆς ῥητορικῆς Longin.17.2; opp. a true logical argument ([[φιλοσόφημα]], [[ἐπιχείρημα]]), Arist.''Top.''162a16:—Ar. calls a person <b class="b3">σόφισμ' ὅλον</b>, ''Av.''431, cf.Ath.1.11b.