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Headword: *)idiw/ths
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:
*)idiw/ths: o( a)gra/mmatos. *dama/skios peri\ *)isidw/rou fhsi/: pa/ntwn tw=n kaq' au(to\n i)diwtw=n o(moi/ws kai\ filoso/fwn e)xe/muqos e)s ta\ ma/lista kai\ kruyi/nous h)=n, a)ll' ei)/s ge sunau/chsin th=s a)reth=s kai\ th=s kaki/as mei/wsin o(/lhn e)ceke/xuto th\n yuxh/n. kai\ *)idiwtei/a.
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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