Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for alpha,1467 in Adler number:
Headword:
Amathesteros
Adler number: alpha,1467
Translated headword: more ignorant, rather ignorant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested] is
a)maqh/s; meaning uneducated and unprepared;
Plato [sc. uses the word].[1] It is also applied to one who is poorly educated and to someone not educated who understands by instinct.
Amathesteros. kai Amathês: anti tou apaideutos kai akosmêtos: Platôn. tassetai de kai epi tou dusmathous kai epi tou mê mathontos, phusei de epistamenou.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is the comparative (masculine nominative singular) of the adjective featured in the body of the entry (which is also in
Photius); cf. already
alpha 1466 and again
alpha 1469.
In
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon both
a)maqe/steros and
a)maqh/s share this glossing, which suggests that
a)maqe/steros also (cf. below) comes from
Plato; if so, from
Republic 409D.
[1]
Plato,
Apology 22E.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 June 2000@12:51:52.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search