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Headword:
Ἀγχίνοια
Adler number: alpha,403
Translated headword: tight-wittedness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Intelligence.
Or "disposition of character for finding out immediately what the appropriate action is."[1] Or "a certain ability to guess properly in a brief period of time."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] tight-witted.[3]
Damascius [writes]: "...an acute and tight-witted natural power capable of being applied in many directions in a short time, very quick to understand and recognize the traces of what it is seeking." The passage [is] about Isidoros.[4]
Ἀγχίνοια: σύνεσις. ἢ ἕξις εὑρετικὴ τοῦ καθήκοντος ἐκ τοῦ παραχρῆμα. ἢ εὐστοχία τις ἐν ἀσκέπτῳ χρόνῳ. καὶ Ἀγχίνουν: Δαμάσκιος: ὀξεῖαν δὲ καὶ ἀγχίνουν φύσεως δύναμιν ἐπὶ πολλὰ δι' ὀλίγου φέρεσθαι δυναμένην ἑτοιμοτάτην συνιέναι καὶ γνωρίζειν τὰ ἴχνη τῶν θηραμάτων. περὶ Ἰσιδώρου ὁ λόγος.
Notes:
See also
alpha 402.
[1]
Diogenes Laertius 7.93. See also
Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.61, 2-4 (ed. Wachsmuth), where "tight-wittedness" (
ἀγχίνοια ) is called "knowledge" (
ἐπιστήμη ) instead of "disposition of character" (
ἕξις ). However, according to the Stoic doctrine described in this line, insofar as
ἀγχίνοια is a virtue subordinated to prudence (
φρόνησις ), it is both a form of knowledge and a disposition of character.
[2] Alexander of
Aphrodisias, Commantaries on
Aristotle's Topica 93.7.
[3] (
alpha 402.) Here in the accusative case, extracted from the quotation which now follows.
[4]
Damascius fr.71 Zintzen (31 Asmus), in
Photius, Bibliotheke; cf.
epsilon 3071,
phi 404.
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2000@21:01:09.
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