incitamentum
κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι. → for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
incĭtāmentum: i, n. id.,
I an incitement, inducement, incentive.
I In abstr. with gen. or ad: et periculorum et laborum, * Cic. Arch. 10, 23: educandi, Plin. Pan. 27, 1: turbarum, Amm. 21, 12 al.: ad honeste moriendum, Curt. 9, 5, 4; so, ad incessendum, id. 3, 11, 5.— With quo and comp.: inclinatio senatus incitamentum Tiberio fuit quo promptius adversaretur, Tac. A. 2, 38.— In plur.: incitamenta irarum, Tac. A. 1, 55: victoriae, id. Agr. 32: spei, Curt. 4, 14, 1 al.—
II In concr., of persons (in Tac.): Sextia uxor, quae incitamentum mortis et particeps fuit, that instigated, Tac. A. 6, 29 fin.—In plur.: acerrima seditionum ac discordiae incitamenta interfectores Galbae, id. H. 2. 23.
