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Headword:
*)/ennous
Adler number: epsilon,1400
Translated headword: thoughtful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] intelligent.
Sophocles [writes]: "a thoughtful [man] judges new things by old." [Meaning] a thoughtful man knows present matters through [knowledge of] what has preceded. For if the oracle given by Apollo is rejected, obviously also now the prophecies which Teiresias has given [are to be rejected also].[1]
And elsewhere: "having done these things, he became thoughtful later, and behaved sensibly."[2]
*)/ennous: o( suneto/s. *sofoklh=s: e)/nnous ta\ kaina\ toi=s pa/lai tekmai/retai. e)/nnous a)nh\r dia\ tw=n fqasa/ntwn ta\ paro/nta ginw/skei. ei) ga\r o( u(po\ *)apo/llwnos doqei\s xrhsmo\s h)ku/rwtai, dhlono/ti kai\ ta\ nu=n, a(\ e)manteu/sato o( *teiresi/as. kai\ au)=qis: tau=ta dra/sas u(/steron e)/nnous e)ge/neto, kai\ e)swfro/nhsen.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 916 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] Adler tentatively attributed this quotation to
Aelian. A TLG search shows that it is in fact from
Nicolaus of Damascus (FGrH 90 F13), on Heracles.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; mythology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 May 2007@21:05:34.
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