addisco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ad-disco, dĭdĭci, no sup., 3, v. a.

I To learn in addition to , to learn further : Quid? qui etiam addiscunt aliquid? ut Solonem versibus gloriantem videmus, qui se cotidie aliquid addiscentem senem fieri dicit, Cic. de Sen. 8, 26; so id. Fin. 5, 29; id. de Or. 3, 36; Ov. M. 3, 593 al. (cf. addocere, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 18).—

II In gen., to learn , to be informed , to hear : quos cum venire rex addidicisset, in fugam vertitur, Just. 2, 3, 13.

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