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ἄπειρος (A), ον, (πεῖρα)
A.without trial or experience of a thing, unused to, unacquainted with, “ἄθλων” Thgn.1013; “καλῶν” Pi.I.8(7).70; “κακότητος” Emp.112.3; “τυράννων” Hdt.5.92.“ά; τῆς ναυτικῆς” Id.8.1; “Περσέων” Id.9.58, cf. 46; πόνων, νόσων, A.Ch.371, Fr.350.2; “γνώμης” S. Ant.1250; “δικῶν” Antipho 1.1; “πολέμων” Th.1.141; “τοῦ μεγέθους τῆς νήσου” Id.6.1; “γραμμάτων” Pl.Ap.26d; “ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν” Lys.2.27; of a woman, ἄ. ἄλλων ἀνδρῶν not having known other men (beside her husband), Hdt.2.111; “ἄ. λέχους” E.Med.672: abs. in same sense, ib. 1091 (lyr.).
2. abs., inexperienced, ignorant, Pi.I.8(7).48, etc.; “γλυκὺ δ᾽ ἀπείροισι πόλεμος” Id.Fr.110; “δίδασκ᾽ ἄπειρον” A.Ch.118. Adv. “ἀπείρως, ἔχειν τῶν νόμων” Hdt.2.45; “πρός τι” X.Mem.2.6.29; “περί τινος” Isoc.5.19: Comp.“ἀπειρότερον, παρεσκευασμένοι” Th.1.49; “-οτέρως” Isoc.12.37, Arist.Resp.470b9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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