I.experience, knowledge gained by experience, practical knowledge, skill (not in Cic. or Cæs.).
(α).
With gen. obj.: “locorum et militiae,” Sall. J. 46, 8: “legum,” Tac. A. 4, 58: “morum,” id. ib. 1, 69: “futurorum,” Suet. Tib. 67: “castra metandi,” Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 32: gratiae ac voluptatis (conciliandae), Quint. 2, 15, 24: “artis pugnae,” Vulg. Judith, 5, 27; Gell. 15, 31, 1.—