Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σπερμολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπερμολόγος σπερμολόγον

Structure: σπερμολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. picking up seeds
  2. one who picks up scraps of knowledge, a babbler

Examples

  • ἐστὶ δὲ κονιστικὸσ πολύτεκνόσ τε καὶ σπερμολόγοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 39 2:1)
  • ‐ εἰ γὰρ Αἰακὸσ ἢ Ῥαδάμανθυσ ἢ Μίνωσ ἦν ὁ κατηγορῶν, ἀλλὰ μὴ σπερμολόγοσ, περίτριμμ’ ἀγορᾶσ, ὄλεθροσ γραμματεύσ, οὐκ ἂν αὐτὸν οἶμαι ταῦτ’ εἰπεῖν οὐδ’ ἂν οὕτωσ ἐπαχθεῖσ λόγουσ πορίσασθαι, ὥσπερ ἐν τραγῳδίᾳ βοῶντα ὦ γῆ καὶ ἥλιε καὶ ἀρετὴ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, καὶ πάλιν σύνεσιν καὶ παιδεία ἐπικαλούμενον, ᾗ τὰ καλὰ καὶ τὰ αἰσχρὰ διαγιγνώσκεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 186:1)
  • τινὲσ δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἐπικουρίων καὶ Στωικῶν φιλοσόφων συνέβαλλον αὐτῷ, καί τινεσ ἔλεγον Τί ἂν θέλοι ὁ σπερμολόγοσ οὗτοσ λέγειν; (, chapter 14 139:1)

Synonyms

  1. picking up seeds

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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