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ἐμπορ-ία

emporia · ἡ

commerce, trade by sea, trade-purposes, a trade, business, errand, journeying, merchandise

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐμπορ-ία · empor-ia — LSJ

commerce, commerce, trade by sea, trade-purposes

commerce (acc. to Arist. Pol. 1258b22, of three kinds, ναυκληρία, φορτηγία, παράστασις (qq. vv.)), mostly used of commerce or trade by sea (cf. ἔμπορος III), Hes. Op. 646, Thgn. 1166, Simon. 127, etc.; ἐμπορίαν ποιεῖσθαι Isoc. 2.1; ἐμπορίας οὐκ οὔσης Th. 1.2; ἐὰν κατὰ θάλατταν ἡ ἐ. γένηται Pl. R. 371a; κατʼ ἐμπορίην, Att. -ίαν, for trade-purposes, Hdt. 3.139, Simon. l.c., Isoc. 17.4, etc.; ἐμπορίας ἕνεκα or -κεν, Th. 1.7, 6.2; πρὸς ἐμπορίαν Ar. Av. 718: pl., τὰς ἐ. τὰς κερδαλέως ib. 594 (anap.);

2 a trade, business

a trade or business, AP 6.63.8 (Damoch.), Ev.Matt. 22.5.

3 errand, business, journeying

errand, business, E. Hyps.Fr. 5.11 (anap.), Luc. Scyth. 4; journeying, πενία ἀζημίωτος ἐ. Secund. Sent. 10.

II merchandise

merchandise, X. Vect. 3.2, AP 7.500 (Asclep.); αὑτοῦ τὴν ἐ. ἔφασκεν εἶναι Lys. 32.25; ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμπορίᾳ ἢν ἦγεν ἐν τῇ . . νηΐ Test. ap. D. 35.23.

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Where it came from

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