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ἀγνώς , ῶτος, ὁ, ἡ, (γνῶ-ναι):
I. Pass., unknown, mostly of persons, “ἀγνῶτες ἀλλήλοις” Od.5.79; “ἀγνὼς πρὸς ἀγνῶτ᾽ εἶπε” A.Ch.677, cf. Supp.993, S.Ph.1008; ἀ. πατρί clam patre, E.Ion14: in Prose, “ἀ. τοῖς ἐν τῇ νηΐ” Th.1.137, cf. Pl.R.375e, etc.
b. of things, obscure, unintelligible, “ἀ. φωνὴ βάρβαρος” A.Ag.1051, cf. S.Ant.1001; ἀ δόκησις dark, vague suspicion, Id.OT681.
2. obscure, ignoble, “ἀ. ἀκλεής” E.IA18; οὐκ ἀ. νίκαν a victory not unknown to fame, Pi.I.2.12; “ἀ.διὰ νεότητα” Jul.Or.3.116b.
II. Act., ignorant, S.OT1133; ἀ. τί δύναται . . X.Oec.20.13.
III. c. gen., where the sense fluctuates between Pass. and Act., “[χθὼν] οὐκ ἀ. θηρῶν” Pi.P.9.58, cf. I.2.30; “ἀγνῶτες ἀλλήλων” Th.3.53; “ὁ ἀ. τῶν λόγων” Arist.SE178a26.
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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