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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.
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Transliteration A: stēlítēs Transliteration B: stēlitēs Transliteration C: stilitis Beta Code: sthli/ths

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ, fem. στηλιτ-ῖτις, ιδος,

   A of or like a στήλη, λίθος Luc. Philops.11; ἐπὶ σταλίτιδι πέτρᾳ (Dor.) AP7.424 (Antip.Sid.).    II inscribed on a στήλη, posted or placarded as infamous, στηλίτην τινὰ ἀναγράφειν, -ίτας ποιεῖν, Isoc.16.9, D.9.45; σ. γεγονὼς ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει Thrasyb. ap. Arist.Rh.1400a32; cf. foreg.