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δι^δακ-τός , ή, όν, also ός, όν Pl.Erx.398d:
I. of things, taught, learnt, ἅπαντα γάρ σοι τἀμὰ νουθετήματα κείνης διδακτά of her teaching, S.El.344; “δ. ἀνθρωπίνης σοφίας λόγοι” 1 Ep.Cor.2.13; “ὅσοις δ. μηδέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν τῇ φύσει τὸ σωφρονεῖν εἴληχεν” E. Hipp.79.
2. that can be taught or learnt, “τὰ δ.” things which may be taught by study and experience, Pi.N.3.41; opp. ἄρρητα, S.OT300; δίδαξον . . εἰ διδακτά μοι if I may learn them, Id.Tr.64, cf. 671; “τὰ μὲν δ. μανθάνω, τὰ δ᾽ εὑρετὰ ζητῶ” Id.Fr.843; κἄστ᾽ οὐ διδακτόν (sc. τὸ τῆς τύχης) E.Alc.786, cf.Supp.914; “καθ᾽ ὅσον δ.” Isoc.13.20; “ἀρετὴν . . εἴτε δ. εἴ τε μὴ δ.” Pl.Men.71a, cf. Prt.328c, Euthd.274e; “ἐπιστήμη” Arist. EN1139b25.
II. of persons, taught, instructed, “πολέμου” LXX 1 Ma. 4.7; also δ. θεοῦ taught by God, ib.Is.54.13( = Ev.Jo.6.45).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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