- λόγιος
- λόγ-ιος, α, ον, ([etym.] λόγος)A 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.AJ17.6.2, etc.; λογιώτατος as title, OGI408.5 (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 ([comp] Sup.), Jul.Or.4.132a;οἱ λ. θεοί Id.Ep.80
; this sense is condemned by Phryn.176. Adv. -ίως eloquently, Plu.2.405a; ὡς ἐνῆν -ώτατα as nearly in words as possible, of the elephant, ib.968d.III oracular,Ἀπόλλωνος δῶμα λόγιον Berl.Sitzb.1911.632
([place name] Cyprus).
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