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Headword:
Ἀγνωμόνως
Adler number: alpha,284
Translated headword: senselessly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Mindlessly, or gracelessly. The unlearned are called senseless -- without discernment -- in
Plato.[1]
And
Demosthenes in the Philippics [sc. uses the word] to mean
ἀλογίστως ["without reason"] and
ἀβούλως ["without counsel"].[2]
And the Theologian [writes]: "o [you], even more senseless than Jews."[3] Meaning "more mindless".
Ἀγνωμόνως: ἀνοήτως, ἢ ἀχαρίστως. λέγονται δὲ παρὰ Πλάτωνι ἀγνώμονες, ἀσύγγνωστοι, οἱ ἀμαθεῖς. καὶ Δημοσθένης ἐν τοῖς Φιλιππικοῖς ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀλογίστως καὶ ἀβούλως. καὶ ὁ Θεολόγος: ὦ καὶ Ἰουδαίων ἀγνωμονέστερε. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀνοητότερε.
Notes:
[1]
Plato,
Republic 450D.
[2]
Demosthenes 2.26. This paragraph of the entry comes from Harpokration s.v.
[3] Gregory Nazianzus in Migne,
Patrologia Graeca 36.661a.
Translated by: Roger Travis on 23 October 2000@13:28:56.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 12 February 2001@07:22:37.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 July 2011@09:30:45.
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