πᾰνουργ-ος
(properispomenon), ον, ready to do anything, wicked, knavish, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 384, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 766, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 250, 450, +others: _superlative_, opposed to εὐηθέστερος, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: as substantive, knave, rogue, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1400, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 249, +others; ὦ πανοῦργε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1257, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 311 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ π. the knavish sort, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 448 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ π., ={πανουργία}, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 1507 ] Refs]: comparative -ότερος[[ LXX.Pro.21.11 ] LXX]; -έστερος [[1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.395c ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: superlative -ότατος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 45, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator [prev. cited] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 adverb -γως[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 317, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 239c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -ότατα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 56. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b πανούργως κατασκευάζεσθαι to be adulterated, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.54. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 of animals, as the fox, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 488b20, compare 613b23. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II in a less positively bad sense, cunning, clever, smart, π. καὶ δεινός [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 177a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1144a28; π. τε καὶ σοφός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 409c; κομψὸς καὶ π. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.28a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.75.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]. adverb -γως, π. καὶ ὑποκριτικῶς λέγειν τὰ ἔπη [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.407a. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]