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Headword: Adaêmones
Adler number: alpha,420
Translated headword: ignorant
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning those who are] inexperienced.[1]
"He was rather ignorant about the wisdom of the Egyptians."[2] Asklepiodotos.[3]
Greek Original:
Adaêmones: apeiroi. ho de tên tôn Aiguptiôn sophian ên adaêmonesteros. ho Asklêpiodotos.
Notes:
[1] Nominative plural of this adjective; same glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon; very probably quoted from Homer, Iliad 13.811 (which generated scholiastic comment) or Odyssey 12.208.
[2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 161 Zintzen (92 Asmus), on Heraiskos: see in full at eta 450.
[3] A military writer of the C1 BCE (see generally OCD(4) p.180) -- but this word is not used in what survives of him. Probably a corruption of the passage quoted at eta 450 (see preceding note), where a certain Asklepiades is said to be th\n *ai)gupti/wn sofi/an dahmone/steros -- "rather knowledgeable," or perhaps "more knowledgeable," sc. than Heraiskos. See Athanassiadi, page 185, note 164.
Reference:
Damascius, The Philosophical History, ed. Polymnia Athanassiadi. Athens 1999.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 October 2000@12:16:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords) on 13 February 2001@08:05:36.
David Whitehead (augmented Damascius ref) on 14 April 2004@09:55:51.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 25 November 2006@23:24:16.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 26 November 2006@04:31:07.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 7 December 2006@01:46:03.
David Whitehead (tweaked n.1) on 9 January 2012@09:12:07.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 30 July 2014@03:02:46.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 29 March 2015@22:52:49.

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