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Headword:
*)agxi/noia
Adler number: alpha,403
Translated headword: tight-wittedness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] intelligence.[1]
Or "disposition of character for finding out immediately what the appropriate action is."[2] Or "a certain ability to guess properly in a brief period of time."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] tight-witted.[4]
Damascius [writes]: "...an acute and tight-witted natural power capable of being applied in many directions in a short time, very quick to understand and recognize the traces of what it is seeking." The passage [is] about Isidoros.[5]
*)agxi/noia: su/nesis. h)\ e(/cis eu(retikh\ tou= kaqh/kontos e)k tou= paraxrh=ma. h)\ eu)stoxi/a tis e)n a)ske/ptw| xro/nw|. kai\ *)agxi/noun: *dama/skios: o)cei=an de\ kai\ a)gxi/noun fu/sews du/namin e)pi\ polla\ di' o)li/gou fe/resqai duname/nhn e(toimota/thn sunie/nai kai\ gnwri/zein ta\ i)/xnh tw=n qhrama/twn. peri\ *)isidw/rou o( lo/gos.
Notes:
See also
alpha 402.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 7.93. See also
Stobaeus,
Eclogae 2.61, 2-4 (ed. Wachsmuth), where "tight-wittedness" (
a)gxi/noia) is called "knowledge" (
e)pisth/mh) instead of "disposition of character" (
e(/cis). However, according to the Stoic doctrine described in this line, insofar as
a)gxi/noia is a virtue subordinated to prudence (
fro/nhsis), it is both a form of knowledge and a disposition of character.
[3] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 93.7.
[4] (
alpha 402.) Here in the accusative case, extracted from the quotation which now follows.
[5]
Damascius fr.71 Zintzen (31 Asmus), in
Photius,
Bibliotheke; cf.
epsilon 3071,
phi 404.
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2000@21:01:09.
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