ē-disco — Lewis & Short
ē-disco, dĭdĭci, 3, v. a.,
I 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 *th=s d' a)reth=s i(drw=ta, 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.