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Headword: *qumo/sofos
Adler number: theta,577
Translated headword: spirit-wise
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who is] easily-taught, natural, gifted.[1]
Wise as a result of one's own spirit, and not as a result of education.
So this is what they used to call those who were naturally sharp learners.[2]
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "anyhow, teach him; he is spirit-wise by nature."[3]
Greek Original:
*qumo/sofos: eu)maqh/s, fusiko/s, eu)fuh/s. e)k tou= i)di/ou qumou= sofo/s, kai\ ou)k e)k maqh/sews. tou\s ou)=n e)k fu/sews o)cumaqei=s ou(/tws e)ka/loun. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: a)me/lei, di/daske: qumo/sofo/s e)sti fu/sei.
Notes:
For this headword cf. already epsilon 576. Much of the material in this entry has parallels in scholia to the Aristophanes passage quoted: see n. 3 below.
[1] = Synagoge theta134; Photius, Lexicon theta269 (where Theodoridis obelizes fusiko/s, following those who prefer to see an adverb here); cf. Hesychius theta895.
[2] cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 3.22.
[3] Aristophanes, Clouds 877 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: children; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 February 2008@02:00:39.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 20 February 2008@04:05:11.
William Hutton (augmented and rearranged notes) on 20 February 2008@09:34:15.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 7 January 2013@06:57:29.
David Whitehead (coding) on 28 April 2016@06:42:58.

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