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Headword: Ἀγνῶτας
Adler number: alpha,287
Translated headword: unknown
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Them] not being recognized.[1] "He brought a man unknown to me, who also happened to be unknown to him."[2]
"They had just left farming and entered into the danger of war, which was previously unknown to them."[3]
And elsewhere: "naming what was the price to give herself to an unknown man." Aelian says [this] in On Forethought.[4]
For agnos, [genitive] agnotos, [means] unknown [agnostos].
Greek Original:
Ἀγνῶτας: μὴ ἐπιγινωσκομένους. ἀγνῶτα δέ μοι προσεκόμιζεν ἄνθρωπον, ὃς καὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἀγνὼς ἐτύγχανεν ὤν. οἱ δὲ ἄρτι τῆς γεωργίας ἀφέμενοι, ἐς κίνδυνον τοῦ πολέμου κατέστησαν, ἀγνῶτα σφίσι τὰ πρότερα ὄντα. καὶ αὖθις: φάσκουσα εἶναι μίσθωμα τὸ ἑαυτὴν παραβαλεῖν ἀνδρὶ ἀγνῶτι. φησὶν Αἰλιανὸς ἐν τῷ Περὶ προνοίας. Ἀγνὼς γὰρ ἀγνῶτος, ὁ ἄγνωστος.
Notes:
The first part of this entry is also in Photius, the second part in other lexica.
[1] Masculine accusative plural, evidently quoted from somwhere (other than the quotation given); there are numerous possibilities.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 1.18.39.
[4] Aelian fr. 12b Domingo-Forasté (12 Hercher); again at mu 1123, pi 274, and pi 2648.
Keywords: agriculture; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 March 2001@23:31:54.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; added keywords) on 18 March 2001@03:42:00.
David Whitehead (restorative cosmetics) on 22 December 2002@07:32:13.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 2 October 2005@11:07:45.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 5 December 2005@08:41:06.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 5 January 2012@07:57:28.
Catharine Roth (updated reference in note 4) on 28 January 2012@20:16:50.

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