ἐμπορ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (ἔμπορος) commerce (accusative to [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1258b22, of three kinds, ναυκληρία, φορτηγία, παράστασις (qq. vv.))] Refs 4th c.BC+], mostly used of commerce or trade by sea [[compare (ἔμπορος 111), 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 646, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1166, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 127, etc.; ἐμπορίαν ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.1; ἐμπορίας οὐκ οὔσης 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; ἐὰν κατὰ θάλατταν ἡ ἐ. γένηται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 371a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατ᾽ ἐμπορίην, Attic dialect -ίαν, for trade-purposes, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.139, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus [same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμπορίας ἕνεκα or -κεν, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.7, 6.2; πρὸς ἐμπορίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 718: _plural_, τὰς ἐ. τὰς κερδαλέως [prev. work] 594 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ τὰς ἐ. διατρίβειν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1291a5, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 a trade or business, [[ Anthologia Graeca 6.63.8 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus), NT.Matt.22.5. ] NT+6th c.AD+]
__3 errand, business, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hyps.fragment” 5.11 (_anapaest meter_), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Scyth.” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; journeying, πενία ἀζημίωτος ἐ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 10. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II merchandise, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 3.2, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.500 (3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus); αὑτοῦ τὴν ἐ. ἔφασκεν εἶναι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμπορίᾳ ἢν ἦγεν ἐν τῇ.. νηΐ Test. cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.23. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]