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ἐμπορ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ, (ἔμπορος)
A.commerce (acc. to Arist.Pol.1258b22, of three kinds, ναυκληρία, φορτηγία, παράστασις (qq. vv.)), mostly used of commerce or trade by sea (cf. “ἔμπορος” 111), Hes.Op.646, Thgn. 1166, Simon.127, etc.; “ἐμπορίαν ποιεῖσθαι” Isoc.2.1; “ἐμπορίας οὐκ οὔσης” Th.1.2; “ἐὰν κατὰ θάλατταν ἡ ἐ. γένηται” Pl.R.371a; κατ᾽ ἐμπορίην, Att. -ίαν, for trade-purposes, Hdt.3.139, Simon. l. c., Isoc.17.4, etc.; ἐμπορίας ἕνεκα or -κεν, Th.1.7, 6.2; “πρὸς ἐμπορίαν” Ar.Av.718: pl., τὰς ἐ. τὰς κερδαλέως ib.594 (anap.); “περὶ τὰς ἐ. διατρίβειν” Arist.Pol.1291a5, cf. D.56.8.
2. a trade or business, AP6.63.8 (Damoch.), Ev.Matt. 22.5.
3. errand, business, E.Hyps.Fr.5.11 (anap.), Luc.Scyth.4; journeying, πενία ἀζημίωτος ἐ. Secund.Sent.10.
II. merchandise, X.Vect.3.2, AP7.500 (Asclep.); “αὑτοῦ τὴν ἐ. ἔφασκεν εἶναι” Lys.32.25; ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμπορίᾳ ἢν ἦγεν ἐν τῇ . . νηΐ Test. ap. D.35.23.
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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