The corpus record

ἀγράμμ-ᾰτος

agrammatos

illiterate

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Where it lives

Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
De Interpretatione 1 · 1.61/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

ἀγράμμ-ᾰτος · agramm-atos — LSJ

illiterate, unable to read, write

illiterate, X. Mem. 4.2.20, Damox. 2.12, Epicur. Fr. 236, AP 11.154 (Lucill.), cf. S.E. M. 1.99; unable to read or write, Pl. Ti. 23a. Adv. -τως Ph. 1.195, Arr. Epict. 2.9.10.

= ἄγραπτος, ἔθη Pl. Plt. 295a.

III unable to utter articulate sounds

of animals, unable to utter articulate sounds, Arist. HA 488a33.

2 inarticulate, incapable of being written, song without words

of sounds, inarticulate, Id. Int. 16a29, D.L. 3.107; incapable of being written, Porph. Abst. 3.3, cf. Eustr. in APo. 102.19; ᾠδὴ ἀ. song without words, Phld. Po. 2Fr. 47.22.

In the wild

ἀγράμματοι · agrammatoi Aristotle, De Interpretatione (DIORISIS sentence 9)
ἀγράμματον · agrammaton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8613)
ἀγράμματος · agrammatos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3035)
ἀγράμματος · agrammatos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3036)
ἀγράμματοι · agrammatoi Epictetus, Discourses 2.14 (DIORISIS sentence 2650)
ἀγράμματος · agrammatos Epictetus, Discourses 2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1945)

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