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|Definition=α, ον, ([[λόγος]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> of or [[belonging to]] [[λόγοι]]:<br><span class="bld">I</span> [[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 [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.1; [[Αἰγυπτίων]] λογιώτατοι Id.2.3, cf. 4.46; so later, οἱ λογιώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων συγγραφέων Plb.6.45.1, cf. 38.6.1, D.S. 2.4, D.H.5.17, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[learned]], [[erudite]], Democr.30, etc.; λ. περὶ τὴν ὅλην φύσιν Arist.''Pol.''1267b28; <b class="b3">ὁ λόγιος Ἀκεστῖνος</b>, of a [[learned]] physician, Hld.4.7; οἱ <b class="b3">λογιώτατοι Τυρρηνῶν</b>, of the Tuscan haruspices, Plu.''Sull.''7; Χαλδαίων οἱ λ. Arr.''An.''7.16.5, cf. J.''AJ''17.6.2, etc.; [[λογιώτατος]] as title, ''OGI''408.5 (Theb. Aeg.), ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''902.1 (v A. D.), etc.; ὁ τῆς λ. μνήμης σχολαστικός ''PMasp.''118.30 (vi A. D.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[skilled in words]], [[eloquent]], τὸ μεγαλοπρεπὲς ὅπερ νῦν καὶ λόγιον ὀνομάζουσιν Demetr.''Eloc.''38, etc.; Arist. is said to have made [[Theophrastus]] [τὸν] λογιώτατον (of his disciples), Str.13.2.4; λ. ἐξ ἀφώνου γενόμενος Plu.''Pomp.''51; [[epithet]] 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. [[λογίως]] = [[eloquently]], Plu.2.405a; <b class="b3">ὡς ἐνῆν</b> λογιώτατα [[as nearly in words as possible]], of the elephant, ib.968d.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[oracular]], Ἀπόλλωνος δῶμα λόγιον ''Berl.Sitzb.''1911.632 (Cyprus).