Deception
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
cozened · deceit · deceived · disguise · evil cunning · falsehood · hoodwinked · imposed upon · imposes upon · impostor
in the texts
Second Philippic
The political mechanism by which Philip and his supporters induce trust, secure concessions, and create danger.
You, I said, gaze with wonder at Philip as he gives away this and promises that, but if you are truly wise, pray that you may never find that he has deceived and cozened you.
For if you had not been hoodwinked then, there would be no anxiety in Athens, because Philip could never, of course, have gained command of the sea and reached Attica with his fleet, nor could he have marched past Thermopylae and Phocis, but either he would have acted fairly and observed the Peace by keeping quiet, or he would have been instantly engaged in a war similar to that which made him so …
It would indeed have been fair, men of Athens, to call upon those who conveyed to you Philip’s promises, on the strength of which you were induced to conclude the Peace.
Amphitruo
The moral category of deception, enacted by Jupiter and Mercury through false disguise to gain illegitimate access.
By means of this stratagem, Jupiter is admitted to the embraces of Alcmena.
He (Is) imposes upon the master and the servant, on their arrival.
Philoctetes
Deception is the method Odysseus commands and Neoptolemus reluctantly adopts to obtain Philoctetes' trust and bow.
It is not in my nature to achieve anything by means of evil cunning, nor was it, as I hear, in my father’s.
And learn why your intercourse with him may be free from mistrust and danger, while mine cannot.
But I am ready to take the man by force and without treachery, since with the use of one foot only, he will not overcome so many of us in a struggle.