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1. 교활한, 약삭빠른, 간사한, 간교한
2. 현명한, 지혜가 있는, 신중한, 똑똑한, 재치 있는, 영리한

1. cunning, sly, crafty
2. wise, clever, ingenious

예문

• Hocque exinde veri simile visum est, quod postea intuta loca carieque nutantia, cum maligna, velut regentibus penetralium callidis, contemplabiliter machinae feriebant hostiles. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XX , chapter 7 9:2)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 7장 9:2)

• atque haec callidis criminatoribus, inter quos delegerat Iulium Postumum, per adulterium Mutiliae Priscae inter intimos aviae et consiliis suis peridoneum, quia Prisca in animo Augustae valida anum suapte natura potentiae anxiam insociabilem nurui efficiebat. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER IV, chapter 12 12:6)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 12장 12:6)

• Sin autem ea, quae observata sunt in usu ac tractatione dicendi, haec ab hominibus callidis ac peritis animadversa ac notata, verbis definita, generibus inlustrata, partibus distributa sunt - id quod video potuisse fieri - , non intellego, quam ob rem non, si minus illa subtili definitione, at hac vulgari opinione ars esse videatur. (M. Tullius Cicero, De Oratore, LIBER PRIMVS 109:1)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 웅변가론, 109:1)

• stultis, luxuriosis nepotibusque hoc nomen imponimus et omnibus vitiis parum callidis. (Seneca, Liber II ad Novatum: de ira, Liber II 88:3)

  (세네카, 노여움에 대하여, 88:3)

• callidum senem callidis dolis compuli et perpuli, mi omnia ut crederet. (T. Maccius Plautus, Bacchides, act 4, scene 4 4:4)

  (티투스 마키우스 플라우투스, , , 4:4)

유의어 사전

Astutus or in old Latin astus (from ἀκή, acuere), and callidus, denote cunning, more in an intellectual sense, as a mark of cleverness; astutus, indeed, acuteness in the invention and execution of a secret project, synonymous with solers; but callidus (from κάλλος), sharp-sightedness in judging of a complicated question of conduct, or worldly wisdom, as the consequence of a knowledge of mankind, and of intercourse with the world, synonymous with rerum peritus, as judicious, and, in its degenerate signification, crafty, like κερδαλέος; on the other hand, vafer and versutus denote cunning in a moral sense, as a mark of dishonesty, and, indeed, vafer (ὑφή), adroitness in introducing tricks, particularly in judicial affairs, as the tricks of a lawyer, like πανοῦργος; versutus (ἀρτυτός), versatility in dissimulation, and in the art of getting out of a scrape by some means or other; in opp. to simplex, Cic. Fin. iv. 25, like στροφαῖος. Plin. Ep. vii. 6. Juvenis ingeniosus, sed parum callidus. Cic. Brut. 48. Callidus, et in capiendo adversario versutus. (iii. 220.)

1. Sapiens (from σήπω) is the person who chooses right objects, from ennobling views, and pursues them with quietness of mind; prudens and callidus denote the person who chooses right means, and regulates them with circumspection; prudentia is a natural judiciousness, pervading a man’s whole nature: calliditas, an acquired knowledge of the world and of men, gained by experience and practice. Cic. Fr. Scaur. 5. Hominis prudentis natura, callidi usu, doctrina eruditi. 2. Prudens is the person who has accurate practical views, in opp. to stultus; scitus, who has tact, mother-wit, and the faculty of combination; solers, who possesses practical genius and inventive power; cordatus, who has his head in the right place, in opp. to excors; catus, who discovers and knows secret means and ways. (v. 114.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein