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Headword:
*qumo/sofos
Adler number: theta,577
Translated headword: spirit-wise
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] easily-taught, natural, gifted.[1]
Wise as a result of one's own spirit, and not as a result of education.
So this is what they used to call those who were naturally sharp learners.[2]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "anyhow, teach him; he is spirit-wise by nature."[3]
*qumo/sofos: eu)maqh/s, fusiko/s, eu)fuh/s. e)k tou= i)di/ou qumou= sofo/s, kai\ ou)k e)k maqh/sews. tou\s ou)=n e)k fu/sews o)cumaqei=s ou(/tws e)ka/loun. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: a)me/lei, di/daske: qumo/sofo/s e)sti fu/sei.
Notes:
For this headword cf. already
epsilon 576. Much of the material in this entry has parallels in
scholia to the
Aristophanes passage quoted: see n. 3 below.
[1] =
Synagoge theta134;
Photius,
Lexicon theta269 (where Theodoridis obelizes
fusiko/s, following those who prefer to see an adverb here); cf.
Hesychius theta895.
[2] cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 3.22.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 877 (web address 1).
Web address 1
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Translated by: William Hutton on 20 February 2008@02:00:39.
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