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Headword:
*)adah/mones
Adler number: alpha,420
Translated headword: ignorant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning those who are] inexperienced.[1]
"He was rather ignorant about the wisdom of the Egyptians."[2] Asklepiodotos.[3]
Greek Original:*)adah/mones: a)/peiroi. o( de\ th\n tw=n *ai)gupti/wn sofi/an h)=n a)dahmone/steros. o( *)asklhpio/dotos.
Notes:
[1] Nominative plural of this adjective; same glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon; very probably quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 13.811 (which generated scholiastic comment) or
Odyssey 12.208.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 161 Zintzen (92 Asmus), on Heraiskos: see in full at
eta 450.
[3] A military writer of the C1 BCE (see generally OCD(4) p.180) -- but this word is
not used in what survives of him. Probably a corruption of the passage quoted at
eta 450 (see preceding note), where a certain Asklepiades is said to be
th\n *ai)gupti/wn sofi/an dahmone/steros -- "rather knowledgeable," or perhaps "more knowledgeable," sc. than Heraiskos. See Athanassiadi, page 185, note 164.
Reference:
Damascius, The Philosophical History, ed. Polymnia Athanassiadi. Athens 1999.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 October 2000@12:16:31.
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