I.to teach thoroughly; to instruct, inform, apprise one of any thing (class.; for syn. cf.: doceo, perdoceo, erudio, praecipio, instituo). —With acc. pers. and rei: “eadem haec intus edocebo, quae ego scio, Stratippoclem,” Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 56; so id. Trin. 2, 2, 91; Sall. C. 16, 1; Liv. 1, 20; Plin. Pan. 26 al.; cf. in the pass.: “Cicero per legatos cuncta edoctus,” Sall. C. 45, 1; Liv. 25, 40; Tac. A. 13, 47; Luc. 1, 587; and with acc. pers. and inf.: “Etruscam Edocuit gentem casus aperire futuros,” Ov. M. 15, 559; cf. in the pass.: “edoctus tandem deos esse,” Liv. 29, 18.— With acc. pers. and rel. clause: “quos ille edocuerat, quae dici vellet,” Caes. B. G. 7, 38, 4; so id. B. C. 3, 108, 2; cf. in the pass.: “ante edocti, quae interrogati pronuntiarent,” id. B. G. 7, 20, 10; Liv. 32, 26: “eadem fere quae Volturcius de paratis incendiis senatum edocet (Kritz. docet),” Sall. C. 48, 4: “ab Evandro edocti,” Liv. 32, 26; cf.: “tot cladibus edocti,” id. 30, 37; and: “in qua (disciplina) edoctus esset,” id. 24, 4: “aliquid,” Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 3: “omnia ordine,” Liv. 24, 24.— With interrog. clause: “quid fieri velit, edocet,” Caes. B. G. 3, 18, 2; 7, 19, 4; Liv. 37, 25; cf. Ter. Ph. 3, 3, 7; and with obj. acc. and inf., Verg. A. 8, 13: “ut edoceas, ut res se habet,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 20.—With acc. pers. and subj. clause: “Phanium edocebo, Ne quid vereatur Phormionem,” Ter. Ph. 5, 2, 17.—
II. Transf., of abstract subjects: “fama Punici belli satis edocuerat, viam tantum Alpes esse,” Liv. 27, 39: edocuit tamen ratio ... ut videremus, etc., * Cic. Tusc. 3, 33, 80.—Hence, * ēdŏcenter , adv., instructively: “scriptum est,” Gell. 16, 8, 3.
