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[Meaning] intelligent, mentally acute.[1]
"When the emperor advocated [sc. for his strategy] and the holy congress praised the tight-wittedness and good counsel of the emperor...".[2]
[It is said] that there are three parts to learning well: tight-wittedness, memory, acuity. And memory is the preservation of what one has learned; acuity is the swiftness of thought; tight-wittedness is the capacity to use what one has learned to pursue what one has not learned.[3]

*)agxi/nous: suneto\s, o)cu\s to\n nou=n. dhmhgorh/santos tou= basile/ws tou= te i(erou= cullo/gou to\ a)gxi/noun te kai\ bouleutiko\n tou= basile/ws e)paine/santos. o(/ti tri/a me/rh eu)maqei/as, a)gxi/noia, mnh/mh, o)cu/ths. kai\ mnh/mh me/n e)sti th/rhsis, w(=n e)/maqe/ tis: o)cu/ths de\ h( taxu/ths th=s dianoi/as: a)gxi/noia de\ to\ e)c w(=n e)/maqe qhreu/ein kai\ a(\ mh\ e)/maqen.

See also alpha 403.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] Menander Protector fr. 5.2 Blockley (48-49). In 558 (probably), Justinian (cf. iota 446 generally) presents a plan to the Senate in Byzantion to enlist the Avars in a campaign to suppress threatening Hunnic tribes. Continued extracts are at sigma 274 and epsilon 493. The Suda alters the fragment source text, which reads dhmhgorh/sas o( basileu/s (aorist active participle, masculine/nominative genitive singular: "the emperor having eulogized/recommended/advocated"). On the territories of the Avars and of their surrounding ethnic groups in mid-C6 CE, see Louth (110, map).
[3] From an ancient Life of Pythagoras (preserved in Photius' Bibliotheke); cf. mu 1155 (end), omicron 437.

R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
A. Louth, "Justinian and His Legacy," in J. Shepard, ed., The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500-1492, (Cambridge 2008) 99-129.

David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 31 October 2000@03:57:26.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 29 April 2002@10:34:36.
David Whitehead (updated a reference) on 3 January 2012@04:37:26.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 9 January 2012@07:18:50.
David Whitehead (another note; cosmetics) on 11 April 2015@08:45:00.
Catharine Roth (typo, coding) on 11 April 2015@21:31:53.
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