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ἀπειρία (A), ἡ, (ἄπειρος A) opp. ἐμπειρία,
A.want of skill, inexperience, ignorance, Hp.Lex4, Th.1.80; “ἐμπειρία τε τῆς ἀπειρίας κρατεῖ” E.Fr. 619; “ἡ μὲν ἐμπειρία τέχνην ἐποίησεν ἡ δ᾽ ἀπειρία τύχην” Polus ap. Arist.Metaph.981a5; “ὑπὸ ἀπειρίας” Pl.Tht.167b; “δι᾽ ἀπειρίαν” Id.Grg. 518d.
2. c. gen. rei, “τοῦ θανεῖν” E.Fr.816.10; ἀ. μέθης want of skill to carry it discreetly, Antipho 4.3.2; “ἀ. ἔργου” And.3.2; “μουσικῆς ἀπειρίᾳ” Philetaer.18; “δι᾽ ἀπειρίαν τοῦ ἐρωτᾶν καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθαι” Pl.R. 487b; ἀπειρείῃσι νόοιο (sic) Epigr.Gr.1078.5 (Adana).
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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    • Andocides, On the Peace, 2
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 3.2
    • Plato, Republic, 487b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 167b
    • Plato, Gorgias, 518d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.80
    • Hippocrates, Lex, 4
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