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ἔμπειρος , ον, (πεῖρα)
A.experienced or practised in a thing, acquainted with it, c. gen., “τῆς θυσίης” Hdt.2.49; “τῶν χώρων” Id.8.132; “Βοιωτῶν” Id.9.46; “τῆς ἐκείνου διανοίης” Id.8.97; “κακῶν” A.Pers.598; “γάμων” S. OC752; “θαλάσσης” Th.1.80 (Sup.); “τοῦ ἀγωνίζεσθαι” Antipho 5.7; ὁ περὶ τῶν νόμων ἔ. Pl.Lg.632d; οἱ μάλιστα περὶ ταῦτα τῶν ἱερέων ἔ. Id.Ti.22a: abs., οἱ ἔ. the experienced, S.OT44, OC1135; experts, Pl.Lg. 765b; ναυσὶν ἐμπείροις for ships skilfully handled, Th.2.89; τὸ ἐμπειρότερον αὐτῶν their greater experience, ib.87.
II. Adv. -ρως, τινὸς ἔχειν to know a person or thing by experience, by its issue, X.An.2.6.1, Antiph.3, etc.; “παιδεῦσαι” D.59.18; “διώκειν” Aen.Tact.2.6; “πόλεμον διενεγκεῖν” Jul.Or.2.95a: Comp. “-οτέρως” Aeschin.1.82.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 82
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 598
    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 7
    • Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 18
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.80
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