I.to learn thoroughly or completely, to get by heart (rare but class.): “omnia jura belli,” Cic. Balb. 20, 47: “locus de moribus est oratori perdiscendus,” id. de Or. 1, 15, 69: “hominis speciem pingere,” id. ib. 2, 16, 69: “ad perdiscendum,” Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 1; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 147; id. Fam. 7, 14, 2 al.; Tib. 1, 10 (9), 65.—With object-clause: “perdidici, isthaec esse vera,” Plaut. As. 1, 3, 35.
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