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ἔμπορ-ος , ον,
A.one who goes on ship-board as a passenger, Od.2.319, 24.300.
II. = ὁ ἐν πόρψ ὤν, wayfarer, traveller, B.17.36, A.Ch.661, S.OC25,303, E.Alc.999 (lyr.).
III. merchant, trader, Semon. 16, Hdt.2.39, Th.6.31, etc.; distd. from the retail-dealer (κάπηλος) by his making voyages and importing goods himself, Pl.Prt.313d, R.371a, Arist.Pol.1291a16, Sch.Ar.Pl.1156: metaph., “ἔ. κακῶν” A.Pers.598; ἔ. βίου a trafficker in life, E.Hipp.964; “ἔ. περὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς μαθήματα” Pl.Sph.231d; ὥρης ἔ. a dealer in beauty, AP9.416 (Phil.); “ἔ. γυναικῶν” IG14.2000.
2. as Adj., = ἐμπορικός, ναῦς ἔ. D.S.5.12.
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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