IDIOT is also used, by ancient writers, for a person ignorant or unlearned: answering to illiteratus, or imperitus. In this sense, Victor tells us, in his Chronicon, that in the consulship of Messala, the Holy Gospels, by command of the emperor Anastasius, were corrected and amended, as having been written by idiot evangelists: Tanquam ab idiotis evangelistis composita.