The corpus record

πᾰνουργ-έω

panourgeo

play the knave

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Where it lives

Plutus 3 · 3.72/10k
Trapeziticus 1 · 3/10k
Against Lacritus 1 · 2.8/10k
Against Aphobus 3 1 · 2.58/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k

What it meant

πᾰνουργ-έω · panourg-eō — LSJ

play the knave, having dared a, crime

play the knave, E. Med. 583, Ar. Ach. 658, Antipho 5.65: c. acc. cogn., ἃ πανουργεῖς Ar. Eq. 803, cf. Pl. 368, 876; ὅσια πανουργήσασα having dared a righteous crime, S. Ant. 74; πανουργίας π. περί τι D. 35.56.

II to be adulterated

Pass., to be adulterated, Gal. 6.269 (v. foreg.).

In the wild

πανουργῶν · panourgōn Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 498)
πανουργεῖν · panourgein Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 1022)
πανουργεῖς · panourgeis Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 581)
πεπανούργηκας · pepanourgēkas Aristophanes, Plutus 875 (DIORISIS sentence 686)
πεπανουργηκότι · pepanourgēkoti Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 283)
πανουργήσας · panourgēsas Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 930)

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Where it came from

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