LOGOI

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λόγ-ιος

logios

of, belonging to λόγοι, versed in tales

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λόγ-ιος · log-ios — LSJ

of, belonging to λόγοι

of or belonging to λόγοι:

I versed in tales, stories

versed in tales or stories (cf. λόγος v), λόγιοι καὶ ἀοιδοί Pi. P. 1.94, cf. N. 6.45: hence of chroniclers (opp. poets), Περσέων οἱ λόγιοι Hdt. 1.1; Αἰγυπτίων -ώτατοι Id. 2.3, cf. 4.46; so later, οἱ -ώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων συγγραφέων Plb. 6.45.1, cf. 38.6.1, D.S. 2.4, D.H. 5.17, etc.

2 learned, erudite, learned

generally, learned, erudite, Democr. 30, etc.; λ. περὶ τὴν ὅλην φύσιν Arist. Pol. 1267b28; ὁ λ. Ἀκεστῖνος, of a learned physician, Hld. 4.7; οἱ -ώτατοι Τυρρηνῶν, of the Tuscan haruspices, Plu. Sull. 7; Χαλδαίων οἱ λ. Arr. An. 7.16.5, cf. J. AJ 17.6.2, etc.; λογιώτατος as title, OGI 408.5 (Theb. Aeg.), POxy. 902.1 (v A. D.), etc.; ὁ τῆς λ. μνήμης σχολαστικός PMasp. 118.30 (vi A. D.).

II skilled in words, eloquent, eloquently, as nearly in words as possible

skilled in words, eloquent, τὸ μεγαλοπρεπὲς ὅπερ νῦν καὶ λόγιον ὀνομάζουσιν Demetr. Eloc. 38, etc.; Arist. is said to have made Thphr. [τὸν] -ώτατον (of his disciples), Str. 13.2.4; λ. ἐξ ἀφώνου γενόμενος Plu. Pomp. 51; epith. of Hermes, as the god of eloquence, Luc. Apol. 2, Gall. 2 (Sup.), Jul. Or. 4.132a; οἱ λ. θεοί Id. Ep. 80; this sense is condemned by Phryn. 176. Adv. -ίως eloquently, Plu. Pyth. 2.405a; ὡς ἐνῆν -ώτατα as nearly in words as possible, of the elephant, ib. Sollert. 968d.

III oracular

oracular, Ἀπόλλωνος δῶμα λόγιον Berl.Sitzb. 1911.632 (Cyprus).

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