ἀπᾰτ-η, ἡ,
trick, fraud, deceit, νῦν δὲ κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.114, compare 4.168] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, wiles, οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλες.. λήξειν ἀπατάων, says Athena to Ulysses, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.294, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.31; σκολιαὶ ἀπάται 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 213. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 guile, treachery, ἄταν ἀπάτᾳ μεταγνούς[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 111, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 230; ἀπάτης δικαίας οὐκ ἀποστατεῖ θεός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 301, compare “Pers.” 93; ἀ. ἐρώτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 617; διαβολὴ καὶ ἀ. 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.7, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. εὐπρεπής, opposed to βία ἐμφανής, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86; ἢ βίᾳ ἢ ἀπάτῃ 2.39] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. λεχέων a being cheated out of the marriage, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 630] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄνευ δόλου καὶ ἀπάτης 'without fraud or covin', [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.69; μετὰ σκότους καὶ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 Ἀπάτη, personified, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 224, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 42. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II beguiling of time, pastime (not Attic dialect, [[ 2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 65), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.20.5; ψυχῆς 4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus 1.1; ψυχαγωγίαι καὶ ἀπάται τῆς πόλεως 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 32.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]