Λογοποιός

storymaker, storyteller

Translated by David Whitehead5 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

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What we would call an historian. Isocrates and Herodotus [sc. use the term].¹
[He] who is an inventor of stories and responses.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λογοποιός· ὁ ὑφ' ἡμῶν ἱστορικὸς λεγόμενος. Ἰσοκράτης καὶ Ἡρόδοτος. ὅς ἐστιν εὑρετὴς λόγων καὶ ἀποκριμάτων.

Betacode

*logopoio/s: o( u(f' h(mw=n i(storiko\s lego/menos. *)isokra/ths kai\ *(hro/dotos. o(/s e)stin eu(reth\s lo/gwn kai\ a)pokrima/twn.