σόφισμα
Third declension Noun; Neuter
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
σόφισμα
σόφισματος
Structure:
σοφισματ
(Stem)
Sense
- any skilful act, the skilful dressing of food
- a clever device, contrivance
- a sly trick, artifice, a stage-trick, claptrap
- a captious argument, a quibble, fallacy, sophism
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- κεχρῆσθαι γὰρ σοφίσματι πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ λέγοντα τὰ ἐκ τῆσ ἁρπαγῆσ κομισθέντα φυλάττειν εἰσ τὴν ἐπισκευὴν τῶν τειχῶν τῆσ Ιἑροσολυμιτῶν πόλεωσ, ἐγνωκέναι δὲ πάλιν τῷ δεσπότῃ ἀποδοῦναι [τὰ ἡρπασμένα]. (Flavius Josephus, 156:1)
- καὶ διὰ τοὔργον αὐτῷ γέγονε τοὔνομα ᾧ σοφίσματι καὶ τὴν σηπίαν χρῆσθαί φησιν ὁ Ἀριστοτέλησ καθίησι γὰρ ὥσπερ ὁρμιὰν ἀπὸ τοῦ τραχήλου πλεκτάνην, μηκύνεσθαί τε πόρρω χαλώσησ καὶ πάλιν συντρέχειν εἰσ ἑαυτὴν ἀναλαμβανούσησ ῥᾷστα πεφυκυῖαν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 27 6:3)
- ἰατρὸν οὖν ποτε θρασυνόμενον καὶ πράγματα πολλὰ παρέχοντα δειπνοῦσιν αὐτοῖσ ἐπιστομίσαι τοιούτῳ σοφίσματι· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 28 5:1)
- ἀτὰρ σφοδρύνῃ γ’ ἀσθενεῖ σοφίσματι· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:4)
- ἢ ταῦτα μόνα ἁμαρτήματά ἐστι τὸ Καπιτώλιον ἐμπρῆσαι καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἀποκτεῖναι, τὸ δ’ εἰκῇ καὶ μάτην καὶ ὡσ ἔτυχεν χρῆσθαι ταῖσ φαντασίαισ ταῖσ αὑτοῦ καὶ μὴ παρακολουθεῖν λόγῳ μηδ’ ἀποδείξει μηδὲ σοφίσματι μηδ’ ἁπλῶσ βλέπειν τὸ καθ’ αὑτὸν καὶ οὐ καθ’ αὑτὸν ἐν ἐρωτήσει καὶ ἀποκρίσει, τούτων δ’ οὐδέν ἐστιν ἁμάρτημα; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 32:2)
Synonyms
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a clever device
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a sly trick
