CONTRIVANCE Copy link • CONTRIVANCEas act, inventio: excogitatio. As thing, inventum: res inventa (invention; Vid: Cic., Brut., 56, 205): ars: artincium: machina (trick, artful means; in comedy, techna, stropha, from τέχνη, στροφή): machinatio (contrivance against anybody, in a bad sense). To apply contrivances, adhibere macbinas (ad aliquid faciendum, Cic.): to devise some contrivance, commoliri dolum et machinam aliquem; artificium quoddam excogitare: to ruin anybody by one’s contrivances, machinis labefactare or percellere aliquem (Cic.): The Greeks are adepts in all contrivances for getting money, Graeci omnes vias pecuniae norunt: a peculiar contrivance of one’s own, quod aliquis per se invenit. By anybody’s contrivance, alicujus macbinis (e.g., to be ruined, labefactari): alicujus opera (by anybody’s means or exertions); aliquo auctore. O cunning men! O clever contrivance! O callidos homines! O rem excogitatam! (Cic.). Scheme, plan, consilium: ratio (means, method): machina: machinatio: conatus (malicious, ill-natured contrivance): To adopt, have recourse to, etc., some contrivance, consilium capere, inire: against anybody, in consequence of anything, contra aliquem, de aliqua re. Vid. SCHEME, PLAN.