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ἐμπορ-εύομαι , fut. -πορεύσομαι: aor. 1 ἐνεπορεύθην:—Med., aor. 1
A.“-ευσάμην” Pl.Ep.313d:—travel, “ξένην ἔπι . . γαῖαν” S.OT456; “ὡς τύραννον” Id.Fr.873; ποῖ δ᾽ ἐμπορεύῃ; Id.El.405; “τηνῶθεν” Ar.Ach. 754.
2. abs., walk, Epich.53, Metag.10.
II. travel for traffic or business, “Χρηματισμοῦ Χάριν” Pl.Lg.952e; εἰς Πόντον Chion Ep.7,8, cf. SIG1166 (Dodona): metaph., ἐ. εἰς ἰατρικήν inveigh against the art of healing, Hp.de Arte1.
2. to be a merchant, traffic, Th.7.13, X.Vect.3.3, etc.; “λόγοισιν” Com.Adesp.269: c. acc., trade in, “γῆν” LXX Ge.34.21.
3. c. acc. rei, import, Pl.Ep.313e; πολλὰς διὰ θαλάσσης “ὠφελείας” D.H.6.86; “πορφύραν ἀπὸ Φοινίκης” D.L.7.2; “γλαῦκας” Luc. Nigr.Prooem.
b. metaph., δίαιταν ἥντιν᾽ ἐμπορεύεται what manner of lite he leads, E.Fr.812.6; ἐ. τὴν φιλοσοφίαν to make a trade of it, Ph.2.486, Them.Or.23.298d, cf. J.AJ4.6.8; “πλήθη καλῶν γυναικῶν” Ath.13.569f; in bad sense, trade on, “τὴν λήθην τῶν δικαστῶν” Ph.2.536.
4. c. acc. pers., make gain of, overreach, cheat, “πλαστοῖς λόγοις ὑμᾶς” 2 Ep.Pet.2.3:—also in Act., Plb.38.12.10.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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