idiot Copy link Outline 2. bucco, ōnis, m.3. homo excors • idiot: 1. fătuus (strictly, one quite incapable): a fool I believe I am: but I don't think I am an i., egomet me stultum existimo; f. me non opinor, Poet. in Isid. Or. 10, 246: in gen. sense = foolish: Join: fatuus et amens, Cic. Deiot. 7, 21. 2. bucco, ōnis, m.: cf. Pl. Bacc. 5, 1, 2, stulti, stolidi, fatui, fungi, bardi, blenni (drivellers), buccones: Apul. 3. homo excors: v. mad, insane.
IDIOT Copy link • IDIOTexcors (of weak understanding, without the power of weighing or examining): qui suae mentis non est: mentis suae non compos (not in possession of reason): fatuus (idiotical; stronger than stultus). Who is such an idiot as to be agitated by these things? quis tam est excors, quem ista moveant? Nobody but an absolute idiot is blind to barefaced flattery, aperte adulantem nemo non videt, nisi qui admodum est excors (Cic.): unless they are absolute idiots, nisi plane sint fatui (Cic.).
Idiot Copy link Idiot, idiōta (ὶδιώτης, der Laie ineiner Kunst- oder. Wissenschaft). homo rudis, illitteratus (ein Ungebildeter).