Lying.
For the headword adjective (here in the nominative masculine singular) see already under
alpha 425.
It occurs in the dative plural in
Lycophron,
Alexandra 1455. See also
Hesychius,
Lexicon psi124 (accusative plural, with the same gloss); Greek Anthology 1.106.2; Greek Anthology Appendix, Epigrammata sepulcralia 722.8 (
ψ. ἔπος ).
For the verb
ψευδηγορεῖν cf.
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound 1032;
Aristotle,
Rhetoric 1397a17;
Philemon fr.102.5 Kock. For the noun
ψευδηγορία see Anna Comnena,
Alexias 14.9.5; Basil,
Epistle 223.1. Even the adverb is attested:
Christus Patiens 2326. These words are very common in patristic and Byzantine Greek: see e.g.
Irenaeus,
Adv. haereses 1.1.20; Nicephorus Gregora,
Roman History 3.233.7; George the Monk,
Chronicon 413.14, 510.18, 511.22, 512.22.
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