[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]
Dedoxopoiêmenon: doxêi kosmoumenon. Polubios: ta men gar alla zôia tais tou sômatos epithumiais douleuei: to de tôn anthrôpôn genos kai prosdedoxasmenon ouch hêtton dia tên alogistian ê dia tên phusin hamartanei.
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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