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   A trading-station, mart, factory, Hdt.1.165, al., Th.1.100, Ar.Av. 1523, IPE12.47.9 (Olbia, i A. D.), etc.; προστάται τοῦ ἐ. Hdt.2.178; ἐ. παρέχειν, of Corinth, Th.1.13.    b market-centre for a district which had no πόλις, SIG880.22 (Macedonia, iii A. D.).    2 τὸ ἐ., at Athens, the Exchange, where the merchants resorted, δανείσασθαι Χρήματα ἐν τῷ ἐμπορίῶ D.35.1, cf. 18.309; ἐκ τοὐμπορίου τινές foreign merchants, Diph.17.3, cf. 43.9.    II ἐμπόρια, τά, merchandise, X. Vect.1.7.