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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

Greek Monolingual

και δ. γρφ. παλαβωμάρα, η
1. διανοητική ανισορροπία, παραφροσύνη, τρέλα
2. συμπεριφορά, λόγος ή πράξη, του παλαβού, ανθρώπου διανοητικά αρρώστου, ανοησία.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < παλαβός / παλαβώνω + κατάλ. -μάρα (πρβλ. χαζο-μάρα)].