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Headword:
Agnômonôs
Adler number: alpha,284
Translated headword: senselessly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] mindlessly, or gracelessly. The unlearned are called senseless -- without discernment -- in
Plato.[1]
And
Demosthenes in the Philippics [sc. uses the word] to mean
a)logi/stws ["without reason"] and
a)bou/lws ["without counsel"].[2]
And the Theologian [writes]: "o [you], even more senseless than Jews."[3] Meaning "more mindless".
Agnômonôs: anoêtôs, ê acharistôs. legontai de para Platôni agnômones, asungnôstoi, hoi amatheis. kai Dêmosthenês en tois Philippikois anti tou alogistôs kai aboulôs. kai ho Theologos: ô kai Ioudaiôn agnômonestere. anti tou anoêtotere.
Notes:
[1]
Plato,
Republic 5.450D; likewise in
Photius alpha217 Theodoridis.
[2]
Demosthenes 2.26. This paragraph of the entry comes from Harpokration s.v.
[3] Gregory of Nazianzus, in
Oration 38 (PG 36.329.13) and again in
Oration 45 (PG 36.661.7).
Translated by: Roger Travis on 23 October 2000@13:28:56.
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