[Meaning someone] adorned with judgment.
Polybius [writes]: "for whereas other creatures are the slaves of their bodily desires, [...] the human race, despite the expectations placed on it, goes astray no less through thoughtlessness than through natural appetite".[1]
*dedocopoihme/non: do/ch| kosmou/menon. *polu/bios: ta\ me\n ga\r a)/lla zw=|a tai=s tou= sw/matos e)piqumi/ais douleu/ei: to\ de\ tw=n a)nqrw/pwn ge/nos kai\ prosdedocasme/non ou)x h(=tton dia\ th\n a)logisti/an h)\ dia\ th\n fu/sin a(marta/nei.
An abridged version of
Polybius 18.15.16 -- from the end of his celebrated digression on treachery (18.13-15).
Besides the abridgement, this version does not, when quoting the relevant extract, repeat the headword participle
dedocopoihme/non (from
docopoie/w) but gives a variant (translated here),
prosdedocasme/non. Modern editors ignore this and print
dedocopoihme/non (rendered in LSJ as 'possess[ing] the power of judgment', but see rather the Loeb translator W.R. Paton, 'man, for all the high opinion that has been formed of him').
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