logou

Updated: May 14, 2025

There were gangs of sailors likewise, Genoese, judging from the patois which they were speaking, though I occasionally distinguished the sound of "tou logou sas," by which I knew there were Greeks at hand, and twice or thrice caught a glimpse of the red cap and blue silken petticoats of the mariner from the Romaic isles.

George Henry Borrow - The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

All the great arts have for their object either the support or exaltation of human life, usually both; and their dignity, and ultimately their very existence, depend on their being "+meta logou alêthous+," that is to say, apprehending, with right reason, the nature of the materials they work with, of the things they relate or represent, and of the faculties to which they are addressed.

John Ruskin - Lectures on Art: Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870