ψευδής, ές (the
neuter singular ψευδές is not found in early writers, ψεῦδος being used instead, compare ψεῦδος 111; it is found in later Gr, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; old
Attic dialect accusative plural ψευδᾶς [
Refs]: (ψεύδομαι):—
lying, false, untrue, of things, opposed to ἀληθής, ψ. λόγοι [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τρέπεσθαι ἐπὶ ψευδέα ὁδόν to betake oneself to
falsehood, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψ. κατηγορία, αἰτίαι,
false charges, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] are also
fallacies, in Logic, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἥδε ἡ ψ. οὐσία this
unreal Being (i.e. the world of sense), [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]: irregular
superlative ψευδίστατος, εἴδη [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2) of persons,
lying, false, and as
substantive,
liar, οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ ψευδέσσι πατὴρ Ζεὺς ἔσσετ᾽ ἀρωγός [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; perhaps ψεύδεσσι from ψεῦδος[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψ. φανήσεσθαι to be detected
in falsehood, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: irregular
superlative ψευδίστατος
arrant liar, [
Refs]
3) τὰ ψευδῆ
falsehoods, lies, οὐ ψευδῆ λέγω [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4) ψευδέων ἀγορή, in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]. ή, ιβ, said to be a name of
the monkey-market, perhaps as being
villanous counterfeits of humanity. II)
passive,
beguiled, deceived, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III)
adverb ψευδῶς
falsely, λέγειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
mistakenly, ψ. δοξάζειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
groundlessly, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]