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Ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι → I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either
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|gf=<b>perspĭcāx</b>,¹⁵ ācis ([[perspicio]]), qui a la vue perçante : -cacior Apul. M. 2, 23 || [fig.] clairvoyant, pénétrant : Cic. Off. 1, 100 || -cissimus Cassian. Inst. 5, 15. | |gf=<b>perspĭcāx</b>,¹⁵ ācis ([[perspicio]]), qui a la vue perçante : -cacior Apul. M. 2, 23 || [fig.] clairvoyant, pénétrant : Cic. Off. 1, 100 || -cissimus Cassian. Inst. 5, 15.||[fig.] clairvoyant, pénétrant : Cic. Off. 1, 100||-cissimus Cassian. Inst. 5, 15. | ||
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Revision as of 07:44, 14 August 2017
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
perspĭcax: ācis, adj. perspicio,
I sharp -sighted, penetrating, acute, perspicacious: perspicax prudentia, old poet ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98: homo (with astutus), Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 1: ad aliquam rem, id. ib. 2, 3, 129: sequemur et id, quod acutum et perspicax naturā est, Cic. Off. 1, 28, 100: ales oculis perspicax, unguibus pertinax, App. de Deo Soc. p. 108 Hildebr.; cf. id. Mag. 53: homo perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo et oculus totus, App. M. 2, p. 124, 38.—Adv.: perspĭcācĭter, acutely, sharp-sightedly, Amm. 26, 6, 1; 29, 1, 38.—Comp.: perspicacius, Consol. Phil. 3 Boëth.; id. Metr. 11, 5.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
perspĭcāx,¹⁵ ācis (perspicio), qui a la vue perçante : -cacior Apul. M. 2, 23 || [fig.] clairvoyant, pénétrant : Cic. Off. 1, 100 || -cissimus Cassian. Inst. 5, 15.
