imprudenter

imprūdens ( inpr- ), entis, adj. [2. inprudens], not foreseeing, not anticipating or expecting, without knowing, unaware, ignorant, inconsiderate, inadvertent, imprudent (class.; syn.: inconsideratus, incautus, improvidus).

(α).

Absol.:

equites missi nocte iter conficiunt, imprudentes atque inopinantes hostes aggrediuntur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 6, 3:

equites imprudentibus omnibus de improviso advolasse,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 36, 3; Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 1; id. B. C. 2, 3, 1; id. B. G. 5, 15, 3:

haec omnia imprudente L. Sulla facta esse certe scio,

without the knowledge of, Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21:

scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello, qui me imprudente et invito excidit,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

namque tu me inprudentem obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 22:

plus hodie boni feci imprudens quam sciens ante hunc diem umquam,

unconsciously, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 40; cf. id. Heaut. 4, 1, 20:

adulescens,

inexperienced, id. Eun. 3, 1, 40:

probe horum facta imprudens depinxit senex,

without knowing it, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 38:

ut mihi imprudens M. Servilium praeterisse videare,

Cic. Brut. 77, 269 (cf. the opp. prudens praetereo, Hor. S. 1, 10, 88):

qua (definitione) tu etiam imprudens utebare nonnumquam,

Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 5:

quod ex prima statim fronte dijudicare imprudentium est,

Quint. 12, 7, 8; 7, 1, 40:

numquam imprudentibus imber Obfuit, i. e. ignaris,

Verg. G. 1, 373 Serv. — Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things:

non imprudens consilium, si aditum haberet,

Petr. 102, 3: ne casu inprudentes suae naves in classem adversariorum inciderent, Auct. B. Afr. 11, 4.— Comp.:

quicquid horum ab imprudentioribus fiet (fieri autem nisi ab imprudentibus non potest), neglegendum,

Sen. Const. Sap. 19.— Sup.:

multa facit (sapiens), quae ab imprudentissimis aut aeque fieri videmus aut peritius aut exercitatius,

Sen. Ep. 90, 33; id. Const. Sap. 19, 1.—

(β).

With gen.:

imprudentes legis,

ignorant, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95:

religionis,

Liv. 31, 14, 7:

maris,

id. 34, 9, 9:

aetatum,

Quint. 1, 1, 20.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

frons tenera imprudensque laborum,

that has not experienced, Verg. G. 2, 372:

antiquitatis imprudens consuetudo,

Col. 3, 18, 1.—

* (γ).

With an object-clause:

non imprudens usurum eum rabie, qua, etc.,

Curt. 8, 8.—Hence, imprūdenter ( inpr- ), adv., without foresight, unknowingly, ignorantly, inconsiderately, imprudently: etsi te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter facturum judicaram, [p. 910] Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, 1; Cic. Ac. 1, 6, 22:

facere,

Nep. Han. 2, 6:

(Codrus) imprudenter rixam ciens interemptus est,

Vell. 1, 2, 1.— Comp.:

ad flammam accessit imprudentius,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 103.