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|lshtext=<b>ē-rŭdĭo</b>: īvi or ii, ītum, 4, v. a., qs. to [[free]] from [[roughness]], i. e.<br /><b>I</b> to [[polish]], [[educate]], [[instruct]], [[teach]] (freq. and [[class]].; cf.: [[doceo]], [[edoceo]], [[praecipio]], [[instituo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: studiosos discendi erudiunt [[atque]] docent, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 156: aliquem, id. Div. 2, 2 ([[with]] docere); id. de Or. 3, 9, 35 ([[with]] instituere); id. ib. 2, 1, 12; Quint. prooem. § 1; 6 et saep.: filios ad majorum instituta ([[with]] instituere), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 26: aliquem artibus, id. Fam. 1, 7 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 2, 19, 34: eum ad exquisitissimam consuetudinem Graecorum erudiit, id. ib. 2, 21, 37: aliquem in jure civili, id. de Or. 1, 59 fin.; cf. id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3.—With [[two]] acc. ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): aliquem leges praeceptaque belli, Stat. Th. 10, 507; cf. Val. Fl. 2, 50; v. also under P. a.: aliquem, [[with]] an [[object]]-[[clause]], Plin. 33, 11, 53, § 149; cf. [[without]] aliquem, Ov. F. 3, 820; Sil. 11, 352.—With a rel.-[[clause]] as [[object]]: [[qua]] possint [[arte]] capi, Ov. F. 3, 294: tirones [[neque]] in [[ludo]], [[neque]] per lanistas, i. e. to [[cause]] to be instructed, Suet. Caes. 26: gladiatores sub [[eodem]] [[magistro]] eruditi, Quint. 2, 17, 33: Athenas erudiendi [[gratia]] [[missus]], Just. 17, 3, 11; [[once]]: aliquem de [[aliqua]] re, Cic.: obviae mihi velim sint tuae litterae, quae me erudiant de omni re publica, [[instruct]] me, [[keep]] me informed of, Cic. Fam. 2, 12, 1.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of objects not [[personal]]: artes, Ov. M. 8, 215: ut flerent, oculos erudiere suos, id. R. Am. 690; id. Am. 1, 14, 30: Polycletus consummasse hanc scientiam judicatur et toreuticen sic erudisse, ut [[Phidias]] aperuisse, to [[have]] [[cultivated]], brought to [[perfection]], Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 56.— Hence, ērŭdītus, a, um, P. a., [[learned]], [[accomplished]], [[well]]-informed, [[skilled]], experienced (cf.: [[litteratus]], [[doctus]], [[peritus]], [[gnarus]], [[scitus]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Prop.: est non [[satis]] [[politus]] iis artibus, quas qui tenent eruditi appellantur, Cic. Fin. 1, 7 fin.: [[Graeculus]] [[otiosus]] et [[loquax]], et [[fortasse]] [[doctus]] [[atque]] [[eruditus]], id. de Or. 1, 22, 102: [[semper]] mihi et [[doctrina]] et eruditi homines placuerunt, id. Rep. 1, 17 fin.; id. Tusc. 1, 3: nec [[sicut]] [[vulgus]] sed ut eruditi solent appellare sapientem, id. Lael. 2, 6; cf. opp. [[rusticus]], Quint. 11, 1, 45; 8, 6, 75 et saep.: non transmarinis nec importatis artibus eruditi, sed genuinis domesticisque virtutibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 15 fin.: homines non litteris ad rei [[militaris]] scientiam, sed rebus gestis ac victoriis eruditos, id. Font. 15, 33; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7 fin.; cf. id. Brut. 67, 236; id. Arch. 7; id. N. D. 3, 9, 23 al.: eruditi Socraticis disputationibus, id. de Or. 3, 34, 139: a pueris eruditi artibus militiae, Liv. 42, 52 et saep.; cf. in the comp.: litteris eruditior [[quam]] [[Curio]], Cic. Brut. 82; and in the [[sup]].: [[Scaevola]], [[homo]] omnium et [[disciplina]] juris [[civilis]] eruditissimus, id. de Or. 1, 39, 180.— With acc.: Graecas res eruditi, Gell. 2, 21, 3; cf. id. 19, 12, 9.—With inf.: [[eruditus]] utilia honestis miscere, Tac. Agr. 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., of [[inanimate]] and [[abstract]] subjects: [[quod]] ceteri [[minus]] eruditis hominum seculis fuerunt, Cic. Rep. 2, 10: tempora ([[with]] docti homines), id. ib.: aures, id. ib. 2, 42; id. Or. 34, 119; Quint. 10, 1, 32: [[animus]], Cic. Fam. 5, 14: [[oratio]] (opp. [[popularis]]), id. Par. prooem. § 4; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 17; 8, 6, 24 al.: Graecorum [[copia]], [[fulness]] of Greek [[learning]], Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 7: palata, i. e. [[practised]], [[fine]] ([[with]] docta), Col. 8, 16, 4; cf. [[gustus]], Tac. A. 16, 18.—In neutr. [[with]] a [[subject]]-[[clause]]: ex [[historia]] ducere urbanitatem, eruditum est, Quint. 6, 3, 98; cf.: eruditissimum [[longe]], si, etc., id. 9, 2, 97.— Adv.: ērŭdītē, [[learnedly]], [[eruditely]].— Comp., Cic. de Sen. 1 fin.; Quint. 1, 5, 36.— Sup., Cic. Or. 52; Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 8.
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