- ῥᾳδιουργία
- ῥᾳδιουργία, ας, ἡ (s. beg. of prec. entry; X. et al.; Suda: ῥ. = πλατογράφος καὶ ὁ κακοῦργος ἁπλῶς a counterfeiter and, in general, a bad pers.) in its less pejorative sense ῥ. suggests an easygoing approach to things in contrast to serious acceptance of responsibilties: ‘frivolity’ (the trickery of slaves is a common theme in Gr-Rom. comedy), then an endeavor to gain some personal end through clever or tricky means, in effect a mild expr. for chichanery, wickedness, villainy, deceit, fraud, unscrupulousness (one who looks for an easy and questionable way of doing things to make money may be said, in American parlance, ‘to con’ others.) (Polyb. 12, 10, 5; Diod S 5, 11, 1; Plut., Cato Min. 16, 3; PMagd 35, 11 [216 B.C.]; BGU 226, 14 [99 A.D.]; POxy 237 VIII, 15; PStras 40, 30; SB 10929 III, 10; Philo, Cher. 80) w. δόλος Ac 13:10.—AWikenhauser, BZ 8, 1910, 273; CBarrett, in Les Actes des Apôtres, ed. JKremer ’79, 289, on Elymas.—M-M. TW. Spicq.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.