connive at
From LSJ
Καλὸν τὸ γηρᾶν καὶ τὸ μὴ γηρᾶν πάλιν → Res pulchra senium, pulchra non senescere → Schön ist das Altsein, doch nicht alt sein wieder auch
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
v.
Ar. and P. περιορᾶν (with part.), προΐεσθαι (with part.), V. ἀμελεῖν (with part.).
begging (them) not to connive at their destruction: P. δεόμενοι μὴ σφᾶς περιορᾶν φθειρομένους (Thuc. 1, 24).
he privily begets sons add connives at their death: V. παῖδας ἐκτεκνούμενος λάθρα θνήσκοντας ἀμελεῖ (Euripides, Ion, 438).
