I. Pass., unknown.
A. In gen.: “quamquam ad ignotum arbitrum me appellis: si adhibebit fidem, Etsi est ignotus, notus: si non, notus ignotissimus est,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 104 sq.: “dubitabitis, judices, quin ab hoc ignotissimo Phryge nobilissimum civem vindicetis?” Cic. Fl. 17, 40: “ignoti homines et repentini quaestores celeriter facti sunt,” id. Brut. 64, 242: “homo ignotus et novus,” id. Rep. 1, 1: “nos pluribus ignotissimi gentibus,” id. ib. 1, 17: “longinqua eoque ignotior gens,” Liv. 5, 32, 5: “procedam in aciem adversus ignotos inter se ignorantesque,” Liv. 21, 43, 18; cf. “§ 13: omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte,” Hor. C. 4, 9, 27: “jus applicationis obscurum sane et ignotum patefactum atque illustratum est,” Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 177: “obscurioribus et ignotioribus verbis,” Quint. 7, 3, 13; cf. id. 8, 3, 73; 8, 6, 74: “haec nova et ignota ratio,” Cic. Rep. 1, 16: “alter (dies) in vulgus ignotus,” id. Att. 9, 5, 2: “ille tibi non ignotus cursus animi mei,” id. ib. 5, 15, 1: “terrae,” unknown, distant, Tib. 1, 3, 3; ib. 39; cf.: nobilis ignoto diffusus consule Bacchus, unknown, remote with respect to time, i. e. old, Luc. 4, 379.—Subst.: ignō-tum , i, n., that which is unknown.— “Prov.: ignoti nulla cupido,” Ov. A. A. 3, 397.—
B. In partic., pregn. (for ignobilis, II.), of low birth or condition, lowborn, base, vulgar (poet.): “quo patre sit natus, num ignota matre inhonestus,” Hor. S. 1, 6, 36; cf.: “naso suspendis adunco Ignotos, ut me libertino patre natum,” id. ib. 6 and 24: “Achivi,” the ignoble Greeks, Ov. M. 12, 600: “progenuit tellus ignoto nomine Ligdum,” id. ib. 9, 670: “ignotis perierunt mortibus illi,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 108.—
II. Act. (cf. the Gr. ἄγνωστος), unacquainted with a thing, ignorant of (very rare for ignarus, insciens, inscitus): ignotae iteris sumus, Naev. ap. Non. 124, 28: “simulacra ignotis nota faciebant,” Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7: “producere ad ignotos (aliquem),” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 75; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 12; cf.: “ignotos fallit, notis est derisui,” Phaedr. 1, 11, 2; so, “ignoti, faciem ejus cum intuerentur, contemnebant,” Nep. Ages. 8, 1.
