I.inexperienced in any thing, not knowing, unacquainted with, unskilled, ignorant, without experience (class.; syn.: ignarus, rudis; opp. prudens, callidus); constr. usually with the gen. or absol., rarely with in.
(α).
With gen.: “homines adulescentulos, inperitos rerum,” Ter. And. 5, 4, 8: “summi juris peritissimus, civilis non imperitus,” Cic. Rep. 5, 3: “imperitus foederis, rudis exemplorum, ignarus belli,” id. Balb. 20, 47; cf. id. de Or. 3, 44, 175: homo imperitus morum, agricola et rusticus, with no experience of life, id. Rosc. Am. 49, 143: “homines barbari et nostrae consuetudinis imperiti,” Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 1; cf. id. ib. 1, 44, 17: “conviciorum,” Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14: “lyrae,” Quint. 1, 10, 19: “poëmatum quoque non imperitus,” Suet. Aug. 89.—
(β).
Absol.: “homine inperito numquam quicquam injustius,” Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 18: “cum in theatro imperiti homines, rerum omnium rudes ignarique consederant,” Cic. Fl. 7, 16: “callidum imperitus fraudasse dicitur,” id. Rosc. Com. 7, 21: “sin apud indoctos imperitosque dicemus,” id. Part. 26, 92; cf. id. Rep. 1, 16: “cum imperiti facile ad credendum impellerentur,” id. ib. 2, 10: “uti prudentes cum imperitis manus consererent,” Sall. J. 49, 2: “ne quis imperitior existimet, me, etc.,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135; so, “imperitiores quidam,” Quint. 1, 10, 28: “contio quae ex imperitissimis constat, etc.,” Cic. Lael. 25, 95: “multitudo imperita et rudis,” Liv. 1, 19, 4.—Rarely of things: “ingenium,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 39: “poëma imperito quodam initio fusum,” Quint. 9, 4, 114.—
(γ).
With in: “in his non imperitus,” Vitr. 1, 1: in verbis adeo imperitus, Quint 1, 4, 27; 12, 3, 5.— Hence, adv.: impĕrītē , unskilfully, ignorantly, awkwardly: “imperite absurdeque fictum,” Cic. Rep. 2, 15: “dicebat Scipio non imperite,” id. Brut. 47, 175: “excerpta,” Quint. 2, 15, 24.—Ellipt.: hoc imperite (suppl. factum), Cic. Phil. 2, 32, 81.—Comp.: “quid potuit dici imperitius?” Cic. Balb. 8, 20.—Sup.: “cum est illud imperitissime dictum,” Cic. Balb. 11, 27.
