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ἄπειρος

apeiros

without trial

Appears 900 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄπειρος (A), ον, (πεῖρα) A. without trial or experience of a thing, unused to, unacquainted with, ἄθλων Thgn. 1013; καλῶν Pi. I. 8(7).70; κακότητος Emp. 112.3; τυράννων Hdt. 5.92.αʹ; τῆς ναυτικῆς Id. 8.1; Περσέων Id. 9.58, cf. 46; πόνων, νόσων, A. Ch. 371, Fr. 350.2; γνώμης S. Ant. 1250; δικῶν Antipho 1.1; πολέμων Th. 1.141; τοῦ μεγέθους τῆς νήσου Id. 6.1; γραμμάτων Pl. Ap. 26d; ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν Lys. 2.27; of a woman, ἄ. ἄλλων ἀνδρῶν not having known other men (beside her husband), Hdt. 2.111; ἄ. λέχους E. Med. 672: abs. in same sense, ib. 1091 (lyr.). 2. abs., inexperienced, ignorant, Pi. I. 8(7).48, etc.; γλυκὺ δʼ ἀπείροισι πόλεμος Id. Fr. 110; δίδασκʼ ἄπειρον A. Ch. 118. Adv. ἀπείρως, ἔχειν τῶν νόμων Hdt. 2.45; πρός τι X. Mem. 2.6.29; περί τινος Isoc. 5.19: Comp.ἀπειρότερον, παρεσκευασμένοι Th. 1.49; -οτέρως Isoc. 12.37, Arist. Resp. 470b9.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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