tortuous
τὸ βέλτερον κακοῦ καὶ τὸ δίμοιρον αἰνῶ, καὶ δίκᾳ δίκας ἕπεσθαι, ξὺν εὐχαῖς ἐμαῖς, λυτηρίοις μηχαναῖς θεοῦ πάρα → I approve the better kind of evil, the two-thirds kind, and that, in accordance with my prayers, through contrivances bringing salvation at the god’s hand
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
crooked: P. σκολιός (Plato), P. and V. καμπύλος (Plato).
deceitful: P. and V. ποικίλος, διπλοῦς, P. σκολιός (Plato), V. ἑλικτός, πλάγιος.
hard to understand: P. and V. ἀσαφής; see obscure.
having crooked thoughts never sound, but tortuous every way: V. ἑλικτὰ κουδὲν ὑγιὲς ἀλλὰ πᾶν πέριξ φρονοῦντες (Euripides, Andromache 448).
I have said these things, mother, taking each by itself devising as tortuous mode of speech: V. ταῦτ' αὔθ' ἕκαστα, μῆτερ, οὐχὶ περιπλοκὰς λόγων ἀθροίσας εἶπον (Euripides, Phoenissae 494).
