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λόγιος

λόγιος, versed in tales

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λογιώτατον masculine accusative singular superlative, neuter nominative singular superlative, neuter vocative singular superlative, neuter accusative singular superlative of λόγιος

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λόγ-ιος, α, ον, (λόγος)
  • of or belonging to λόγοι:
    • I versed in tales or stories (cf. λόγος v), λόγιοι καὶ ἀοιδοί Pi. P. 1.94, cf. N. 6.45: hence of chroniclers (opp. poets), Περσέων οἱ λόγιοι Hdt. 1.1; Αἰγυπτίων -ώτατοι Id. 2.3, cf. 4.46; so later, οἱ -ώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων συγγραφέων Plb. 6.45.1, cf. 38.6.1, D.S. 2.4, D.H. 5.17, etc.
      • 2 generally, learned, erudite, Democr. 30, etc.; λ. περὶ τὴν ὅλην φύσιν Arist. Pol. 1267b28; ὁ λ. Ἀκεστῖνος, of a learned physician, Hld. 4.7; οἱ -ώτατοι Τυρρηνῶν, of the Tuscan haruspices, Plu. Sull. 7; Χαλδαίων οἱ λ. Arr. An. 7.16.5, cf. J. AJ 17.6.2, etc.; λογιώτατος as title, OGI 408.5 (Theb. Aeg.), POxy. 902.1 (v A. D.), etc.; ὁ τῆς λ. μνήμης σχολαστικός PMasp. 118.30 (vi A. D.).
    • II skilled in words, eloquent, τὸ μεγαλοπρεπὲς ὅπερ νῦν καὶ λόγιον ὀνομάζουσιν Demetr. Eloc. 38, etc.; Arist. is said to have made Thphr. [τὸν] -ώτατον (of his disciples), Str. 13.2.4; λ. ἐξ ἀφώνου γενόμενος Plu. Pomp. 51; epith. of Hermes, as the god of eloquence, Luc. Apol. 2, Gall. 2 (Sup.), Jul. Or. 4.132a; οἱ λ. θεοί Id. Ep. 80; this sense is condemned by Phryn. 176. Adv. -ίως eloquently, Plu. Pyth. 2.405a; ὡς ἐνῆν -ώτατα as nearly in words as possible, of the elephant, ib. Sollert. 968d.
    • III oracular, Ἀπόλλωνος δῶμα λόγιον Berl.Sitzb. 1911.632 (Cyprus).

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