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Headword:
*sofisth/s
Adler number: sigma,812
Translated headword: sophist
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] deceiver. [Derived] from the [verb]
sofi/zesqai, i.e. to deceive with speeches/words.[1] However, a teacher, as one who instructs, is also called a sophist.[2] And in the old days a sage was called a sophist.[3]
"[...] and to become a consummate practictioner in pains and diseases."[4]
And
Aristophanes says 'you deal subtly' [
sofi/zh|] instead of 'you employ art' [
texna/zh|].[5] For they used to call skills of speaking [
sofi/as] and quibbles [
sofi/smata] 'arts' [
te/xnas.[6]
*sofisth/s: a)patew/n. para\ to\ sofi/zesqai, o(/ e)/sti lo/gois a)pata=n. le/getai de\ sofisth\s kai\ o( dida/skalos, w(s sofi/zwn. to\ de\ palaio\n sofisth\s o( sofo\s e)kalei=to. o)du/nais te kai\ no/sois gene/sqai sofisth\n a)/kron. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs le/gei sofi/zh|, a)nti\ tou= texna/zh|. sofi/as ga\r kai\ sofi/smata ta\s te/xnas e)/legon.
Notes:
The first and principal paragraph here is also in other lexica; references at
Photius sigma425 Theodoridis. See also
sigma 813,
sigma 814.
[1] See e.g.
Plato,
Gorgias 449Dff,
Meno 95C,
Phaedrus 267A,
Symposium 198C,
Protagoras 313A-314B;
Aristotle,
Rhetoric passim;
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1 (483); Aelius
Aristides (DK 79, 1). See LSJ entries at web address 1 and web address 2.
[2]
Plato,
Meno 95C,
Protagoras 318D-E, 327E-328B. As Dover (below) 144 says: 'The practitioner of an art is normally also a teacher of apprentices'. See
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists passim, for the teaching activity of imperial-era sophists. On imperial sophists in particular, see G.W. Bowersock (1969),
Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press; E.L. Bowie (1982), 'The importance of sophists', in J.J. Winkler and G. Williams (eds.),
Later Greek Literature,
Yale Classical Studies 27: 29-60.
[3] So e.g. in (?)
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound 62 and 944.
[4] A garbling of part of
Aelian fr. 108b Domingo-Forasté (105 Hercher); see in context at
iota 73.
[5]
Scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 299.
[6] Dover (below) xxxvi: 'Since
Plato we have been accustomed to distinguish between the sophist and the philosopher, and therefore lack a word to cover both. The distinction was not made in language of Ar.'s time, nor was the word
sophistes so narrowly confined so later'. See also Woodruff (below). Thus
Plato presents
Protagoras saying that sophistry is a
techne (
Prot. 317C). See also
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.
Praef. (480-484).
Aristophanes, Clouds, edited with Introduction and Commentary by K.J. Dover, Oxford, OUP, 1968
A.W. Adkins, 'Arete, techne, democracy and sophists: Protagoras 316B-328D', in Journal of Hellenic Studies 93 (1973)
M. Canto-Sperber (ed.), Philosophie grecque, Paris, PUF, 1997
E. Dupreel, Les sophistes; Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, Neuchatel, Editions du Griffon, 1948
W.K.C. Guthrie, The History of Greek Philosophy, vol. III: The fifth-Century Enlightment, Cambridge, CUP, 1969
M.C. Stokes, Plato's Socratic Conversations, London, The Athlone Press, 1986
M. Untersteiner, I Sofisti, Turin, Einaudi, 1947; second edition translated: Les Sophistes, Paris, Vrin, 1993, 2 vols
P. Woodruff, 'Plato's Early Theory of Knowledge', in H. Benson (ed.), Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates, Oxford, OUP, 1992
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; history; medicine; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Marisa Divenosa on 17 November 1999@18:37:44.
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