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Headword:
Opsimathês
Adler number: omicron,1079
Translated headword: late-learner
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Superianus[1] was a rather late learner and somewhat dull by nature; ... [nevertheless] beginning when he was 30 years old[2] he read the books of the orators."
Greek Original:Opsimathês: ên de ho Soupêrianos opsimathês men hikanôs, tên de phusin huponôthesteros, l# etôn arxamenos anaginôskein ta tôn rhêtorôn biblia.
Notes:
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.140 Zintzen, quoted more fully at
sigma 799.
[1] [
sigma 799] Superianus.
[2] The study of rhetoric normally began in one's early- or mid-teens.
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 4 September 2003@14:45:06.
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