σοφισ-τής, οῦ, ὁ,
master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.49 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of poets, μελέταν σοφισταῖς πρόσβαλον [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).28, compare 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of musicians, σοφιστὴς.. παραπαίων χέλυν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 314, compare 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 447, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 140 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σοφιστῇ Θρῃκί (i.e. Thamyris) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 924, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.632c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with modal words added, οἱ σ. τῶν ἱερῶν μελῶν [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 11.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the Creator of the universe (ὁ δημιουργός), πάνυ θαυμαστὸν λέγεις σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 596d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of cooks, εἰς τοὺς σ. τὸν μάγειρον ἐγγράφω [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 149.14, compare 3rd c.BC: Euphro Comicus 1.11 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; οἱ τὴν ἱππείαν σ. skilled in.. , [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.9: _metaphorically_, σ. πημάτων] Refs 2nd c.AD+] deviser, contriver of pains, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 993:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —then,
__2 wise, prudent or statesmanlike man, in which sense the seven Sages are called σοφισταί, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.29, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.235, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 5, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Pythagoras, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.95 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of natural philosophers, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Isocrates and Plato, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of the Βραχμᾶνες, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 6.16.5, compare γυμνοσοφισταί] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; frequently with a slightly iron. sense, ἵνα μάθῃ σ. ὢν Διὸς νωθέστερος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 62, compare 944; ψυχή.. κρείσσων σοφιστοῦ παντὸς εὑρέτις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 101, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 921: proverbial, μισῶ σοφιστὴν ὅτις οὐχ αὑτῷ σοφός [prev. author] “fragment” 905 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: of the philosophic sage, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 2.311 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 1st c.AD+]