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ἀγνώμ-ων , ον, gen. ονος, (γνώμη)
A.ill-judging, senseless, Thgn.1260 codd. (s.v.l.), Pi.O.8.60, Pl.Phdr. 275b; “ὥσπερ κυνίδιον τοῖς εἴκουσιν ἀ.” Phld.Lib.p.10 O.; opp. μετὰ λογισμοῦ πράττειν, Men.617; inconsiderate, “τὸ ἄ. καὶ θυμοειδές” Hp.Aët. 16. Adv.-όνως senselessly, X.HG6.3.11, etc.; “ἀ. ἔχειν” D.2.26.
2. headstrong, reckless, (in Comp.) Hdt.9.41: Sup., X.Mem.1.2.26.
3. unfeeling, hard-hearted, “Φοίβῳ τε κἀμοὶ μὴ γένησθ᾽ ἀγνώμονες” S.OC86; of judges, X.Mem.2.8.5; joined with ἀχάριστος, Id.Cyr.8.3.49, cf. Mem.2.10.3, D.21.97; esp. ignoring one's debts, Ulp.ad D.2.26, Jul. Or.3.117e (Comp.); “ἀ. περὶ τὰς ἀποδόσεις” Luc.Herm.10.
4. unknowing, in ignorance, “ἀ. πλανᾶσθαι” Hp.Vict.1.6.
II. of things, senseless, brute, Aeschin.3.244; also φρονοῦσαν θνητὰ κοὐκ ἀγνώμονα (neut. pl.) S.Tr.473.
2. cruel, “πρᾶγμα ἄ. πάσχειν” Parth. 17.5.
III. of horses, without the teeth that tell the age (γνώμονες) Poll.1.182. [α^γν- only in Man.5.338.]
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 244
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 2, 26
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 97
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.41
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 275b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 86
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 473
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.3.49
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.11
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.2.26
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.10.3
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.8.5
    • Lucian, Hermotimus, 10
    • Parthenius, Narrationes Amatoriae, 17.5
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