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Headword: *)ama/qhtos
Adler number: alpha,1470
Translated headword: ignorant, simple
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] untaught.[1]
"Justinus was ignorant of all letters and was, in a word, illiterate".[2]
Also, "you are ignorant and idle and have not even treaded Aesop".[3] In reference to idiots. The [verb] path=sai ["to tread"] [is] equivalent to to be familiar with; just as we speak of "arriving" somewhere. And again Aristophanes [writes]: "speak in a simpler and clearer way". From the proverb, "talk to me more clearly and more simply."[4]

Greek Original:

*)ama/qhtos: a)di/daktos. o( de\ *)iousti=nos a)ma/qhtos h)=n gramma/twn a(pa/ntwn kai\ to\ dh\ lego/menon a)nalfa/bhtos. kai\, a)maqh\s e)/fus kou) polupra/gmwn ou)de\ to\n *ai)/swpon pepa/thkas. e)pi\ tw=n i)diwtw=n. to\ de\ path=sai i)=so/n e)sti tw=| e)ndiatri/yai: w(s to\ a)fike/sqai pou le/gomen. kai\ au)=qis *)aristofa/nhs: a)maqe/stero/n pws ei)pe\ kai\ safe/steron. para\ th\n paroimi/an, safe/stero/n moi ka)maqe/steron fra/son.

Notes:

[1] cf. generally alpha 1468, alpha 1469.
[2] Procopius, Secret History 6.11 (web address 1), on the illiteracy of the eastern Roman emperor Justin I (518-527); cf. alpha 1952, iota 449, and Kaldellis (29).
[3] Aristophanes, Birds 471 (web address 2), with scholion.
[4] Aristophanes, Frogs 1445 (web address 3), with scholion; quoted more extensively at sigma 163.

Reference:

A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)

Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; historiography; history; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 June 2000@10:37:07.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (modified translation, note, keywords; cosmetics) on 16 January 2001@11:18:28.
David Whitehead (added keywords; restorative and other cosmetics) on 5 July 2002@04:04:13.
David Whitehead (x-refs; another keyword; tweaks) on 11 February 2012@08:49:21.
Catharine Roth (upgraded links) on 12 March 2012@23:44:55.
William Hutton (added cross-reference) on 17 October 2013@08:46:37.
David Whitehead on 14 June 2015@09:44:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography and link) on 26 April 2024@11:33:26.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 27 April 2024@00:46:18.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 3 May 2024@11:34:08.

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