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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

Met., experience, proof: P. and V. πεῖρα, ἡ, P. πρόπειρα, ἡ.

give a foretaste of: P. and V. γεύειν (τινά τινος).

to have had a foretaste of: P. and V. γεγεῦσθαι (gen.) (perf. infin. pass. of γεύειν), πεπειρᾶσθαι (gen.) (perf. infin. pass. of πειρᾶν) (Eur., Fragment), P. διαπεπειρᾶσθαι (gen.) (perf. infin. pass. of διαπειρᾶν).