| Those who gave the name were not simple enough to think that even an opsimath was not something better than a contented dunce. |
| 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. |
| The truth is that Zola was an opsimath, who had read Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, the Goncourts and Taine late in life. |
| It is not that difficult to tell the derelict from the opsimath or the autodidact from the pot pusher. |
| 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. |
