alicujus rei ignarus (the ignarus has no acquaintance with, being without notitia; the inscius has no knowledge of, being without scientia): alicujus rei imperitus (unskilled in it): inscius alicujus rei (unknowing in anything; not having the rules and principles of an art imprinted on one’s memory; implying blame: Döderlein): rudis alicujus rei or in aliqua re (not ad aliquid in Cic.; raw, uninstructed in anything). (The words are found in this connection and order.) inscius alicujus rei et rudis (Cic.): nescius (one who has not heard of or experienced something, whether from his own fault or not; e.g., absens et impendentis mali nescius; Plin., Döderlein). To be quite unacquainted, with anything, in maxima alicujus rei ignoratione versari: ☞ ignotus, in this sense, is classical, but rare; illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant (Cic., Fam., 5, 12, 7); ignotos fallit, notis est derisui (Phaedrus, 1, 11, 2; so Nep., Ages., 8).