Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀμαθ-ής

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A.ignorant, stupid, Hdt.1.33, Democr.169, etc.; “ἔθνεα ἀμαθέστατα” Hdt.4.46; “ἀνὴρ πένης, εἰ καὶ γένοιτο μὴ ἀ.” E. Supp.421, al., Ar.Nu.135; “ἀ. καὶ βδελυρός” Id.Eq.193; “ἀμαθεστάτους πάντων ἀνθρώπων” And.2.2; “ἀ. τὴν [ἐκείνων] ἀμαθίαν” Pl.Ap.22e; opp. δεξιός, Th.3.82; of animals, such as wild boars, unmanageable, “θυμώδη καὶ ἀ.” Arist.HA488b14: c. gen. rei, without knowledge of a thing, unlearned in it, “-έστερος τοῦ καλοῦ” E.Or.417; “λῃστείας” Th. 4.41, cf. 3.37; “ἀ. περί τινος” Pl.Erx.394e; τι La.194d; “πρός τι” Lg. 679d. Adv. -θῶς ignorantly, through ignorance, “ἥμαρτον” E.Ph.874: Comp. -έστερον, τῶν νόμων ὑπεροψίας παιδεύεσθαι to be educated with too little learning to despise the laws, Th.1.84; “-έστερόν πως εἰπὲ καὶ σαφέστερον” less learnedly, Ar.Ra.1445.

b. of moral defects, unfeeling, inhuman, “ἀ. τις εἶ θεός” E.HF347.

2. of things, ἀ. παρρησία boorish freedom of speech, E.Or.905; ἀ. ῥώμη brute force, Id.Fr.732; “ἀ. δύναμις” Plu.Demetr.42; ἀ. φρόνημα barbarous pride, E.Heracl.459.

II. not heard of, unknown, “ἀ. ἔρρει” E.Ion916. Adv. ἀμαθῶς, χωρῆσαι, of events, to take an unforeseen course, Th.1.140.

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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