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Headword:
Εὑρετής
Adler number: epsilon,3679
Translated headword: inventor
Vetting Status: low
Translation: "He was a ready inventor [of answers] both for problems which he set for others and for those which others set for him, not burying and concealing the truth and silencing the questioners with erudition and recitation of others' opinions."[1]
Εὑρέτις [is] the feminine form, with iota, [meaning] she who invents.[2]
Greek Original:Εὑρετής: ἦν δὲ καὶ εὑρετὴς ἑτοιμότατος ὧν τε αὐτὸς ἠπόρει πρὸς ἑτέρους καὶ ὧν ἕτεροι πρὸς αὐτόν, οὐ πολυμαθείᾳ καὶ ἀλλοτρίων δοξασμάτων ἱστορίᾳ καταχωννὺς μὲν τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἀποκρύπτων, ἐπιστομίζων δὲ τοὺς ἀποροῦντας. Εὑρέτις δὲ θηλυκόν, διὰ τοῦ ι, ἡ ἐφευρετική.
Notes:
[1]
Damascius Life of Isidore fr.86 Zintzen, 40 Asmus, 37E Athanassiadi (with
pi 1966; cf.
Photius,
Bibliotheca 338a 11-15).
[2] Regularly used of goddesses credited with inventing something.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 March 2004@01:47:17.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 3 March 2004@03:26:34.
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