A.of or belonging to λόγοι:
I. 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” Hdt.1.1; Αἰγυπτίων -ώτατοι Id.2.3, cf. 4.46; so later, οἱ -“ώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων συγγραφέων” Plb.6.45.1, cf. 38.6.1, D.S. 2.4, D.H.5.17, etc.
2. generally, learned, erudite, Democr.30, etc.; “λ. περὶ τὴν ὅλην φύσιν” Arist.Pol.1267b28; ὁ λ. Ἀκεστῖνος, of a learned physician, Hld.4.7; οἱ -ώτατοι Τυρρηνῶν, of the Tuscan haruspices, Plu.Sull.7; “Χαλδαίων οἱ λ.” Arr.An.7.16.5, cf. J.AJ17.6.2, etc.; λογιώτατος as title, OGI408.5 (Theb. Aeg.), POxy.902.1 (v A. D.), etc.; “ὁ τῆς λ. μνήμης σχολαστικός” PMasp.118.30 (vi A. D.).
II. skilled in words, eloquent, “τὸ μεγαλοπρεπὲς ὅπερ νῦν καὶ λόγιον ὀνομάζουσιν” Demetr.Eloc.38, etc.; Arist. is said to have made Thphr. [τὸν] -ώτατον (of his disciples), Str.13.2.4; “λ. ἐξ ἀφώνου γενόμενος” Plu.Pomp.51; epith. 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. -ίως eloquently, Plu.2.405a; ὡς ἐνῆν -ώτατα as nearly in words as possible, of the elephant, ib.968d.