ērŭdītĭo, ōnis, f. [erudio], an instructing, instruction (cf.: doctrina, disciplina, scientia, intellegentia, cognitio).
I Prop.: de ejus eruditione quod labores, nihil est, quoniam ingenium ejus nosti, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4 fin. ; cf. Quint. 2, 3, 10; Gell. 11, 7, 3.— Far more freq.,
II Transf., learning , knowledge , erudition , obtained by instruction: qui praeclara eruditione atque doctrina aut utraque re ornati, Cic. Off. 1, 33; id. de Or. 2, 1; id. Fin. 1, 21, 71; id. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; id. Div. 2, 63 fin. ; Quint. 1, 4, 6; 6, 3, 17 et saep.—In plur., Vitr. 1, 1, 11; Gell. praef. § 3.