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doxographer

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doxographer [ˌdɒksˈɒgrəfə]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Rare a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
[from New Latin doxographus, from Greek doxa opinion, conjecture + graphos writer]
doxographic  adj
doxography  n


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Calling him "a Salieri, not a Mozart" (11), he gives proper attention to his status as a doxographer even while recognizing the subtlety and importance of his treatment of the diallelus.
Touched by the impatient, busy hand that is supposedly objective and scientific, the Scriptures, cut off from the breath that lives within them, become unctuous, false or mediocre words, matter for doxographers, for linguists and philologists.
 
 
 
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