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