The opsimath or late-leamer is potentially a comic figure, as may be seen from his presence in Theophrastus Characters. |
Being an opsimath, I had not been fishing that long myself, but still knew a few rudimentary rules about how to land a fish. |
Those who gave the name were not simple enough to think that even an opsimath was not something better than a contented dunce. |
It is not that difficult to tell the derelict from the opsimath or the autodidact from the pot pusher. |
He derides Philoponus as an opsimath for not seeing that we must try to uncover the deeper agreements behind the surface inconcinnities. |
When it comes to firearms, I am definitely an opsimath, as I have never fired a gun until I was past the age of 30. |