σκηνικεύομαι

A. play a part as an actor: metaph., ἐκείνοις ταῦτα ἐσκηνικεύετο in this he was play-acting to them, Memn. 51.3; prob. cj. for σκηνεύομαι in Lyd. Mag. 1.31.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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