experience (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ūsus, ūs2. pĕrītia (knowledge acquired by e.)3. expĕrientia (esp. with rerum4. expr. by expĕrīmentum (an act of trial, an individual experience) • experience (subs.): 1. ūsus, ūs: a general of no e., nullius u. imperator, Caes.: military e., u. in re militari, Cic.: possessed of such e. (in legal matters), tali usu [atque exercitatione] praeditus, Cic. Clu. 31, 84: great political e., u. in republica rerum maximarum, Cic. Rep. 1, 23. 2. pĕrītia (knowledge acquired by e.): e. of localities and warfare, locorum et militiae p., Sall.: Tac.: v. sagacity. 3. expĕrientia (esp. with rerum: in Cic. the act of trying): neither in years or e. equal to such a burden, non aetate neque rerum ex. tantae moli par, Tac. A. 1, 4: a man of long e., vir longa ex., Tac.: Vell. 4. expr. by expĕrīmentum (an act of trial, an individual experience): esp. in pl.: taught by abundant e., multis ex. eruditus, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 16: Metellus knew by e. that ..., Metello experimentis cognitum erat (with acc. and inf.): Sall. Jug. 46: precept is of less avail than e., minus valent praecepta quam experimenta, Quint. 2, 5, 15. Phr.: I speak from e., dico expertus in nobis, Cic. (v. foll. art.): your e. during the last 24 years, quae per quatuor et viginti annos passi sitis, Liv. 21, 10, med.: taught by the e. of others, per aliena exempla doctus (R. and A.): I have learned by e., compertum ego habeo, Sall. Cat. 58, init.