λόγιος

English (LSJ)

α, ον, (λόγος)

   A of or belonging to λόγοι:    I 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 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.AJ17.6.2, etc.; λογιώτατος as title, OGI408.5 (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, 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.2.405a; ὡς ἐνῆν -ώτατα as nearly in words as possible, of the elephant, ib.968d.    III oracular, Ἀπόλλωνος δῶμα λόγιον Berl.Sitzb.1911.632 (Cyprus).