EN Va: ἀτεχνῶς

The text of the Scholion is Clement’s, but some remarks point to the compiler of the Scholia.

The adverb ἀτεχνῶς appears in Christian authors, as it does in pagan ones, too. From the frequency of its usage, some interesting conclusions flow. The term is definitely Plato’s and appears no fewer than seventyseven times in his work, still it also occurs in Aristotle (five times), in Chrysippus (twice), Plotinus (once), Galen (four times), Plutarch (thirty-six times), and Posidonius (three times). It also occurs in Christian authors, such as Athanasius (twice), Basil of Caesarea (three times), Eusebius (eleven times), Cyril of Alexandria (three times), Evagrius of Pontus (three times), Gregory of Nazianzus (twice), Gregory of Nyssa (eight times), even Gregory Thaumaturgus (four times) in his speech paying homage to Origen. John Philoponus had also employed this (six instances), and so did Lucian of Samosata (twenty-seven instances). Procopius of Gaza used it once in one of his epistles (no. 46). Origen himself did not actually use the term, since four instances in Contra Celsum are actually a quotation from Celsus.