edisco

ē-disco, dĭdĭci, 3, v. a., to learn by heart, commit to memory (class.).

I.

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 Tês d aretês hidrôta, 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.—

II.

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,

B.

Poet. in the perf.:

edidici,

I know, Tib. 2, 2, 12; Ov. Pont. 3, 7, 4.