(verb) : ē-disco, dĭdĭci, 3
* To learn by heart, commit to memory (class.).
* Prop.: ut non legantur modo (poetae) sed etiam ediscantur,Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27; cf.: haec discenda, imo ediscenda sunt,Sen. Ep. 123 fin.: Demosthenem in primis legendum vel ediscendum potius putem,Quint. 10, 1, 105: ad verbum ediscendus libellus,Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 135; id. de Or. 1, 34, 157: ad verbum,Quint. 11, 2, 44: Lepta ediscat Hesiodum et habeat in ore Τῆς δ̓ ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα, Cic. Fam. 6, 18 fin.: magnum numerum versuum, * Caes. B. G. 6, 14, 3: dicta clarorum virorum,Quint. 1, 1, 36; 1, 11, 14 et saep.; cf.: De ediscendo,Quint. 2, cap. 7, —Poet.: vultus alicujus,Val. Fl. 1, 368.
* In gen., to learn, study (so mostly poet., esp. a favorite expression of Ovid): qui istam artem (juris) non ediscant (shortly after: si quis aliam artem didicerit),Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 246: linguam,Val. Max. 8, 7 ext. 6: leges,Ov. Am. 1, 15, 5: linguas duas,id. A. A. 2, 122: ritus pios populi,id. F. 2, 546: usum (herbarum),id. M. 7, 99: artes paternas,id. ib. 2, 639: numeros modosque vitae,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 144 et saep.: cum edidicisset quemadmodum tractandum bellum foret,Liv. 23, 28: edisco tristia posse pati,Ov. H. 7, 180: edidici, quid perfida Troia pararet,i. e. have experienced,id. M. 13, 246.—Hence
* Poet. in the perf.: edidici,I know,Tib. 2, 2, 12; Ov. Pont. 3, 7, 4.

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