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Headword: *)ocu/ths
Adler number: omicron,437
Translated headword: keenness, sharpness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Note] that [there are] three parts of readiness in learning: tight-wittedness, memory, acuity. And memory is the preservation of what one has learned, acuity [is] the swiftness of mind, tight-wittedness [is] tracking down out of the things one learned even the things one did not learn.
Greek Original:
*)ocu/ths: o(/ti tri/a me/rh eu)maqei/as, a)gxi/noia, mnh/mh, o)cu/ths. kai\ mnh/mh me/n e)sti th/rhsis w(=n e)/maqe/ tis, o)cu/ths de\ h( taxu/ths th=s dianoi/as, a)gxi/noia de\ to\ e)c w(=n e)/maqe qhreu/ein kai\ a(\ mh\ e)/maqen.
Note:
For this headword see already omicron 436. The present material, attributed to Pythagoras, is repeated from alpha 402; see also under mu 1155.
Keywords: definition; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 24 July 2008@09:43:59.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 July 2008@10:00:56.
David Whitehead on 4 July 2013@07:44:26.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 25 January 2021@00:09:49.
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