Having seen.[1] "Having learned [this], the Celt laughed and mocked, as if he were a man about to do combat with a boy."[2]
And elsewhere [it is written]: "as [he/she] learned that he also was standing up ...". Meaning [he/she] saw [this].[3]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "for one might learn something wise even from his enemies."[4]
[1] Aorist participle of
μανθάνω , masculine nominative singular.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler flags up
kappa 1307 while asserting that the present material is not from John of
Antioch. Perhaps more exactly, it does not seem to be part of his fr.49.)
[3]
Callimachus,
Hekale fr.257.
[4] A possible version -- for others see Dunbar's edition ad loc. -- of
Aristophanes,
Birds 382, where this gnomic statement occurs (web address 1).
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