σῡκοφαντ-ία, ἡ,
vexatious or dishonest prosecution, chicane, barratry, blackmail, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.14, 28.6 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.12, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.249, Charondas cited in 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τοῖς πράγμασι προσάγειν employ chicane in the case, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.98 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῖς οἰκείοις σ. δέδωκεν has given them an opportunity for chicane, [[ [prev. author] 23.67, compare “POxy.” 472.33 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; contrasted with φήμη, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.145; [γραφὴ] συκοφαντίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 59.3; συκοφαντίας αὐτοῦ κατέγνωτε 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.65. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 oppression, σ. πένητος [[ LXX.Eccl.5.7, cf. LXX.Psa.118(119).134 ] LXX]; extortion, [[ PTeb. 43.36 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὸ τακτὸν εἰς τὸ πρόστιμον τῆς σ. [[ “PFlor.” 6.6 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II quibble, sophism, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1402a15, compare “EE” 1221b7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]