ἄγνοιᾰ, ἡ,
(see. γιγνώσκω) want of perception, ignorance, ἀγνοίᾳ[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1596; ἀγνοίας ὕπο “Supp.” 499] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἣν ὑπ᾽ ἀγνοίας ὁρᾷς whom seeing you pretend not to know, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 419; ἀγνοίᾳ ἐξαμαρτάνειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.38, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 577, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.64, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐπιστήμη, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 199d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 66b26; ἄ. κενότης ἐστὶ τῆς περὶ ψυχὴν ἕξεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 585b] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἄγνοιαν πράττειν, opposed to ἀγνοῶν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1110b25: in Logic, ἡ τοῦ ἐλέγχου ἄ.] Refs 4th c.BC+] ignoratio elenchi, ignorance of the conditions of a valid proof, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 168a18, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II mistaken conduct, a mistake, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.133, “Ep.” 2.19, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 27.2.2. [In Poets sometimes ἀγνοίᾱ, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 350, “Ph.” 129] Refs 5th c.BC+]; old Attic dialect, accusative to [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus Dion. “fragment” 11, compare 2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 191] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Ionic dialect ἀγνοίη[[ 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.]] Refs 9th c.AD+]