Ἰδιώτης
layman, private individual, unskilled person
Translated by Marcelo Boeri23 Jan 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one who is illiterate.
Damascius says concerning Isidore: "among all the laymen of his time and similarly among the philosophers he was both a taciturn and person of hidden thoughts for the most part, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common increase of virtue and the diminution of vice".1
Also [sc. attested is]i)diwtei/a ["illiteracy/lack of education"].2
Damascius says concerning Isidore: "among all the laymen of his time and similarly among the philosophers he was both a taciturn and person of hidden thoughts for the most part, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common increase of virtue and the diminution of vice".1
Also [sc. attested is]