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Headword: Ψηφολόγοι
Adler number: psi,81
Translated headword: jugglers, con men
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Those who play games with pebbles are [called] ψηφολόγοι . At any rate those who mislead and deceive are juggler-like, just as the jugglers rob [people], deceiving the eyes by the swift moving of the pebbles.[1]
Greek Original:
Ψηφολόγοι: ψηφολόγοι εἰσὶν οἱ ψηφοπαῖκται. ψηφολογικοὶ γοῦν οἱ πλανῶντες καὶ ἀπατῶντες, ὥσπερ οἱ ψηφολόγοι τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τῷ τάχει τῆς μεταθέσεως τῶν ψήφων ἀπατῶντες συναρπάζουσι.
Notes:
See also psi 82.
[1] "The "shell game": from a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus, Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.486.11; cf. PG 36.1256b.
Keywords: daily life; definition; ethics; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 December 2005@19:22:54.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 31 December 2005@05:14:28.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 25 July 2006@07:16:58.
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