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Headword: Idiôtês
Adler number: iota,122
Translated headword: layman, private individual, unskilled person
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who is illiterate.
Damascius says concerning Isidore: "among all the laymen of his time and similarly among the philosophers he was both a taciturn and person of hidden thoughts for the most part, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common increase of virtue and the diminution of vice".[1]
Also [sc. attested is] i)diwtei/a ["illiteracy/lack of education"].[2]
Greek Original:
Idiôtês: ho agrammatos. Damaskios peri Isidôrou phêsi: pantôn tôn kath' hauton idiôtôn homoiôs kai philosophôn echemuthos es ta malista kai krupsinous ên, all' eis ge sunauxêsin tês aretês kai tês kakias meiôsin holên exekechuto tên psuchên. kai Idiôteia.
Notes:
For the headword see also iota 121.
[1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 60 Zintzen (28 Asmus); cf. epsilon 3988, mu 850, omicron 146.
[2] cf. iota 116 (end) for a different spelling.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; imagery; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 23 January 2004@20:26:59.
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