ἄγνωστος

agnostos

unknown

Appears 9 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Theaetetus 5
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202e1
205c10
205e3
202b6
206b10
Parmenides 3
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133c1
134b14
135a5
Republic 1
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Book V 1
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477a4

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄγνωστος, ον, A. unknown, τινί Od. 2.175; unheard of, forgotten, Mimn 5.7; ἄ. ἐς γῆν E. IT 94; unfamiliar, Arist. Top. 149a5 (Comp.). 2. not to be known, ἄγνωστόν τινα τεύχειν Od. 13.191; πάντεσσι ib.397; ἀγνωστστατοι γλῶσσαν most unintelligible in tongue, Th. 3.94. 3. not an object of knowledge, unknowable, ἄλογα καὶ ἄ. Pl. Tht. 202b; ἡ ὕλη ἄ. καθʼ αὑτήν Arist. Metaph. 1036a9; in Comp., harder to know, ib. 995a2. Adv. -τως Procl. in Alc.p.52C. 4. as the name of a divinity at Athens, νὴ τὸν Ἄγνωστον Ps.-Luc. Philopatr. 9, cf. Act.Ap. 17.23; in pl., θεῶν . . ὀνομαζομένων ἀ. Paus. 1.1.4. II. Act., notknowing, ignorant of, ψευδέων Pi. O. 6.67 (v.l. ἄγνωτον), cf. Luc. Halc. 3. Adv. -τως inconsiderately, Phld. Lib.p.29 O.

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