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ἐκμανθάνω ,
A.learn thoroughly, and, in past tenses, to have learnt thoroughly, know full well, ἐ. τὴν [Ἑλλάδα] “γλῶσσαν” Hdt.2.154; “ἀνδρὸς ψυχήν” S.Ant.175; “ἐ. τι ἀπό τινος” A.Pr.256; “ἔκ τινος” Pl.Ax.371a; “παρά τινος” S.OT286; τοῦ θεοῦ τί πρακτέον ib.1439, cf. OC114, Ar.Ec. 244; “ἐ. ὅτι..” Hdt.3.134.
II. examine closely, search out, Id.7.28, E.IT667, X.Cyr.1.6.40.
III. learn by heart, “ὅλους ποιητάς” Pl. Lg.811a, cf.Aeschin.3.135; “ᾁσματα” Thphr.Char.27.7; “Σαπφοῦς τἀρωτικά” Epicr.4; “Διονυσίου δράματα” Ephipp.16; “ἵνα πολλάκις ἀκούοντες τῶν ἐπῶν ἐκμανθάνωμεν τὴν ἔχθραν” Isoc.4.159.
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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