σοφιστεύω

From σοφῐστής (sophistḗs, “sophist”) +‎ -εύω (-eúō, “denominative verb-forming suffix”).

σοφῐστεύω • (sophisteúō)

1. play the sophist, argue as one
2. practise the profession of sophist, give lectures
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Julius Caesar :

     ἔπλευσεν εἰς Ῥόδον ἐπὶ σχολὴν πρὸς Ἀπολλώνιον τὸν τοῦ Μόλωνος, οὗ καὶ Κικέρων ἠκρόατο, σοφιστεύοντος ἐπιφανῶς

     épleusen eis Rhódon epì skholḕn pròs Apollṓnion tòn toû Mólōnos, hoû kaì Kikérōn ēkróato, sophisteúontos epiphanôs

     he went by boat to Rhodes, to the School of Appolonius son of Molon, whom Cicero has attended too, as he was famous for his teaching.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• σοφῐστῐάω (sophistiáō, “play the sophist”)
• σοφῐ́ζω (sophízō, “make wise, instruct, devise”), σοφῐ́ζομαι
• σοφόω (sophóō, “σοφίζω, make wise, instruct, devise”)

• σοφῐ́στευμᾰ n (sophísteuma, “skill, method, σόφισμα”)

Compounds:

• ἀντισοφῐστεύω (antisophisteúō)
• ἐνσοφῐστεύω (ensophisteúō, “tirck like a sophist”)
• κᾰτᾰσοφῐστεύω (katasophisteúō, “outwit by sophisms”)
• ῠ̔περσοφῐστεύω (hupersophisteúō, “be an arch-sophist”)

• σοφῐστής m (sophistḗs, “expert; philosopher, teacher; swindler”)
• σοφῐστείᾱ f (sophisteíā, “sophistry”)

and see at σοφός (sophós, “wise”)

• σοφιστεύω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σοφιστεύω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers