ἔμπορ-ος, ον,
one who goes on ship-board as a passenger, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.319, 24.300. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II = ὁ ἐν πόρῳ ὤν, wayfarer, traveller, [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.36, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 661, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 25, 303, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 999 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III merchant, trader, [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 16, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.39, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]; distinguished from the retail-dealer (κάπηλος) by his making voyages and importing goods himself, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313d, “R.” 371a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1291a16, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1156: _metaphorically_, ἔ. κακῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 598 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. βίου a trafficker in life, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 964; ἔ. περὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς μαθήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 231d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥρης ἔ. a dealer in beauty, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.416 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus); ἔ. γυναικῶν “IG” 14.2000. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III.2 as adjective, ={ἐμπορικός, ναῦς ἔ}. [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.12. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]