knowledge Copy link Outline 1. scientia (in all senses)2. cognĭtio (strictly, the acquisition of knowledge3. nōtĭtia (practical k., familiarity with)4. expr. by abl. absol., with imprūdens, inscius • knowledge: 1. scientia (in all senses): Caes.: Cic. (N.B. If used in widest sense, rerum should be added: cf. L. G. § 595.) 2. cognĭtio (strictly, the acquisition of knowledge: also k. itself, in active sense): to obtain a k. of God by gazing upon the heavens, Deorum c. coelum intuentes capere, Cic. N. D. 2, 56, init.: the (attainment of the) k. of law, c. juris, Cic. de Or. 1, 41, 185 (scientia juris is the k. as attained: cf. Cic. Sen. 4, 12, quae scientia juris augurii, sc. in eo erat). 3. nōtĭtia (practical k., familiarity with): health is maintained by k. of one's own constitution, valetudo sustentatur notitia sui corporis, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86: what (intimate) k. of antiquity! quae n. antiquitatis! Cic. Sen. 4, 12. (Not notio in this sense: v. notion.) Phr.: without the k. of, clam, with abl., less freq. acc.: without your k., clam vobis, Caes. B. C. 2, 32, med.: Pl., who has acc. (in Cic., clam is always an adverb: but, clam vos, Pseudo-Cic. in Sall. 5, 15). Dimin. clanculum, rare with acc., Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 27, clanculum patres. 4. expr. by abl. absol., with imprūdens, inscius: that these things were done without the k. of L. Sulla, haec imprudente [inscio] L. Sulla facta esse, Cic. R. Am. 8, 21: v. ignorant.