Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: palamê	2: methodos	3: technêma	4: autourgikos	5: technopôlikos
Latin	1: artificium	2: toreutice	3: techna	4: factura	5: conditio
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Words That Regularly Appear With technê
In Perseus Texts:	epistêmê	phusis	rhêtorikos	empeiria	iatrikos
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techn-ê, hê, (tektôn) art, skill, cunning of hand, esp. in metalworking, Hom. Od. 3.433, au=Hom. Od. 6.234, au=Hom. Od. 11.614; also of a shipwright, Hom. Il. 3.61; of a soothsayer, Aesch. Ag. 249 (pl., lyr.), ti=Aesch. Eum. 17, Soph. OT 389, etc.; technai heterôn heterai Pind. N. 1.25; ôpase t. pasan IDEM=Pind. O. 7.50.

2. craft, cunning, in bad sense, doliê t. Hom. Od. 4.455, Hes. Th. 160: pl., arts, wiles, Hom. Od. 8.327.332, Hes. Th. 496,au=Hes. Th. 929; doliais technaisi chrêsamenos Pind. N. 4.58; technais tinos by his arts (or simply by his agency), IDEM=Pind. O. 9.52, ti=Pind. P. 3.11; technên kakên echei he has a bad trick, Hes. Th. 770, cf. Pind. I. 4(3).35(53), S Ph.88, etc.

3. way, manner, or means whereby a thing is gained, without any definite sense of art or craft, mêdemiêi t. in no wise, Hdt. 1.112; itheêi t. straightway, IDEM=Hdt. 9.57; pasêi t. by all means, Aristoph. Cl. 1323, ti=Aristoph. Thes. 65, ti=Aristoph. Eccl. 366; pantoiai t. Soph. Aj. 752, etc.; ouk apostêsomai . . oute t. oute mêchanêi oudemiai IG12.39.22; pasêi t. kai mêchanêi Xen. Anab. 4.5.16; mête t. mête mêchanêi mêdemiai Lys. 13.95.

II. an art, craft, pasai technai brotoisin ek Promêtheôs Aesch. PB 506, cf. IG12.678; tên t. epistasthai to know the craft, Hdt. 3.130; phlaurôs echein tên t. Ibid=Hdt. 3.130; tês t. empeiros Aristoph. Frogs 811; tautên technên echei he makes this his trade, Lys. 1.16, cf. au=Lys. 6.7; en têi t. einai practise it, Soph. OT 562, Plat. Prot. 317c; epi technêi mathein ti to learn a thing professionally, opp. epi paideiai, IBID=au=Plat. Prot. 312b, cf. au=Plat. Prot. 315a; technai kai ergasiai Xen. Mem. 3.10.1; technên to pragma pepoiêmenoi having made a trade of it, Dem. 37.53; technas askein, meletan, ergazesthai, to practise them,Xen. Cyrop. 1.6.26,au=Xen. Cyrop. 1.6.41=lr (Pass.), ti=Xen. Ec. 4.3; patrôian technan ergazesthai halieuesthai Praktika Arch. Het.au=Xen. Ec. 1932.52 (Dodona, iv B.C.); iatros tên t. POxy. 40.5 (ii A.D.); tetherapeukôs anenklêtôs têi t., of a barber, PEnteux. 47.3 (iii B.C.); paramenô pros hupêresian tês t. (viz. weaving) Sammelb. 7358.20 (iii A.D.); apo technôn trephesthai live by them, Xen. Const. Lac. 7.1.

III. an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, system or method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts, Epich.171.11, Plat. Phaedrus 245a, Aristot. Rh. 1354a11, ti=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1140a8; hê empeiria technên epoiêsen, hê d' apeiria tuchên Polus ap. eund.Metaph. 981a4; hê peri tous logous t. the ti=Polus Art of Rhetoric, Plat. Phaedo 90b; hoi tas t. tôn logôn suntithentes systems of rhetoric, Aristot. Rh. 1354a12, cf. Isoc. 13.19, Plat. Phaedrus 271c, Phld.Rh.2.50 S., al.; hence title of various treatises on Rhetoric (v. VI; but rather tricks of Rhetoric, in Aeschin. 1.117); technêi by rules of art, Plat. Euthyd. 282d; ê phusei ê technêi IDEM=Plat. Rep. 381b; technêi kai epistêmêi IDEM=Plat. Ion 532c; aneu technês, meta technês, IDEM=Plat. Phaedo 89e: t. defined as hexis hodopoiêtikê, Zeno Stoic.1.20, cf. Cleanth. IBID=au=Zeno Stoic. 1.110.

IV. = technêma , work of art, handiwork, kratêres . . , andros eucheiros technê Soph. OC 472; hoplois . . , Hêphaistou technêi IDEM=S.Fr. 156, cf. Strab. 14.1.14, PLond.3.854.4 (ii A.D.), Paus. 6.25.1, al.

V. = suntechnia, hê t. tôn lithourgôn, tôn sakkophorôn, Dumont-Homolle Mélanges d' archéol. et d' épigr.au=Paus. p.378 No.au=Paus. p.65=lr,au=Paus. p.66=lr (Perinthus); t. burseôn, suropoiôn, IGRom.1.717,au=IGRom. 1.1482=lr (both Philippopolis); tous kataleipomenous apo têis t. BGU1572.12 (ii A.D.); ho chalkeus apo tês t. SIG 1140 (Amphipolis).

VI. treatise on Grammar, D.T. tit., or on Rhetoric, Anaximenes Lampsacenus tit.