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The term itself is fairly appropriate for a second album, deriving from the Greek words "sophos", meaning wise, and "moros", which provides the root for "moron".
Culture | guardian.co.uk Wendy Fonarow 2010
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Do you guys think that the queen of eddis and sophos will make a good match like the queen of attolia and Gen?
Coming Soon: A Conspiracy of Kings, by Megan Whalen Turner « educating alice 2009
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Sophos has pointers for consumers to protect themselves at sophos. com/facebook
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Reading io kunes, io kunes, sophos ge o kunes, kalos ge o kunes.
On Hunting 2007
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The virtuous person becomes the sage (sophos) who has and acts on knowledge of the good.
Moral Character Homiak, Marcia 2007
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THEAETETUS: The philosopher he cannot be, for upon our view he is ignorant; but since he is an imitator of the wise he will have a name which is formed by an adaptation of the word sophos.
The Sophist 2006
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The word comes from two Greek words, philos loving, sophos wise, and means loving wisdom.
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Dialogue, on the authority of Pliny, who tells us that those wretched sycophants had two nick-names; one in Greek, [Greek: Sophokleis], and the other in Latin, LAUDICÆNI; the former from _sophos_, the usual exclamation of applause, as in Martial: _Quid tam grande sophos clamat tibi turba, togata_; the Latin word importing _parasites_ who sold their praise for a supper.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Lexicon seems to doubt whether it is deriv'd from the [Greek: sophos] or from the Arabick_ Sûph.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Euripides was regarded, and rightly, as no less a philosopher than a tragedian, and was not infrequently styled [Greek: sophos].
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero
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