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mercor, ātus, 1 (archaic form, mercassitur for mercatus fuerit, Inscr. Grut. 512, 20.— Inf. mercarier for mercari, Hor. S. 2, 3, 24), v. dep. n. and a. [id.], to trade, traffic, deal in commodities ( absol., Plaut. Merc. prol. 82), to buy, purchase something from a person (cf. nundinor).

Lit., constr. with aliquid ab or de aliquo, with abl. or gen. of the price (class.):

aliquid ab aliquo,

Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150:

fundum de pupillo,

id. Fl. 20, 46:

aliquid tanto pretio,

id. Rosc. Am. 46, 133:

hortos egregiasque domos,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 24:

quanti mercatura mullum luxuria?

Plin. 9, 18, 31, § 68:

hanc (segetem),

Juv. 14, 143.—In part. pres.: mercans, antis, subst., a buyer, purchaser:

spem mercantium frustrari,

Suet. Aug. 75.—

Trop.:

ego haec officia mercanda vitā puto,

to be purchased with life, Cic. Att. 9, 5, 3:

amorem muneribus,

Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 15.—In pass. signif., to be bought (mostly post-Aug.):

jam quidem facta emplastra mercantur,

Plin. 34, 11, 25, § 108.— Part. perf.: mercātus, a, um, bought, purchased: commeatibus mercatis, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 138, 12:

cultus,

Prop. 1, 2, 5:

sestertiis centum quinquaginta milibus trullam unam mercatam a matrefamilias,

Plin. 37, 2, 10, § 29 (the better reading is mercatā matre, Jan.).

• Nothing is so expensive as that which you have bought with pleas. (Seneca)

ap-prĕtĭo ( adp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [pretium] (only in eccl. Lat.).

To value or estimate at a price, to appraise, rate, Tert. Res Carn. 20 med. al.—

To purchase: [p. 144] pretium adpretiati, of him on whom a price was set, who was bought, Vulg. Matt. 27, 9;

in gen.,

to appropriate to one's self, Tert. Res. Carn. 9.

ap-prĕtĭo ( adp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [pretium] (only in eccl. Lat.).

To value or estimate at a price, to appraise, rate, Tert. Res Carn. 20 med. al.—

To purchase: [p. 144] pretium adpretiati, of him on whom a price was set, who was bought, Vulg. Matt. 27, 9;

in gen.,

to appropriate to one's self, Tert. Res. Carn. 9.

vēnālis, e, adj. [2. venus], of or belonging to selling, to be sold, for sale, purchasable.

Lit.

In gen.:

aedes,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 67:

aedis venalis hasce inscribit litteris,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 131:

horti,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58:

venales ac proscriptae possessiones,

id. Agr. 3, 4, 15:

cibus uno asse,

Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 54:

ut ne opera quidem pistoria proponi venalia sinerent,

Suet. Tib. 34:

essedum,

id. Claud. 16:

cibumque coctum venalem proponi vetuit,

Val. Max. 2, 7, 2:

vox,

i. e. of a public crier, Cic. Quint. 3, 13:

otium non gemmis venale,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 7:

postremo dixisse (Jugurtham), Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit,

Sall. J. 35, 10:

ubi non sit, quo deferri possit venale, non expediat colere (hortos),

Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 3:

familia,

i. e. a gang of slaves for sale, Quint. 7, 2, 26.—

In partic.: vēnālis, is, m., a young slave offered for sale, Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 4; id. Rud. 4, 3, 35; id. Trin. 2, 2, 51 al.; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146; Sen. Ben. 4, 13, 3; id. Ep. 80, 8; Hor. S. 1, 1, 47; Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 199; cf. Quint. 8, 2, 8.—Hence, Caesărī vēnāles (or as one word, Caesărĭvēnāles), ium, m., a name given to the inhabitants of Castulo, in Spain, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 25.—

Transf., that can be bought by bribes or presents, venal:

quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jus jurandum, veritatem, officium, religionem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62, § 144:

fidem cum proposuisses venalem in provinciā,

id. ib. 2, 2, 32, §

78: juris dictio,

id. ib. 2, 2, 48, §

119: multitudo pretio,

Liv. 35, 50, 4:

amicae ad munus,

Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 21:

cena,

Mart. 3, 60, 1:

animae,

Sil. 15, 500:

amici,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.

vēnālis, e, adj. [2. venus], of or belonging to selling, to be sold, for sale, purchasable.

Lit.

In gen.:

aedes,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 67:

aedis venalis hasce inscribit litteris,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 131:

horti,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58:

venales ac proscriptae possessiones,

id. Agr. 3, 4, 15:

cibus uno asse,

Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 54:

ut ne opera quidem pistoria proponi venalia sinerent,

Suet. Tib. 34:

essedum,

id. Claud. 16:

cibumque coctum venalem proponi vetuit,

Val. Max. 2, 7, 2:

vox,

i. e. of a public crier, Cic. Quint. 3, 13:

otium non gemmis venale,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 7:

postremo dixisse (Jugurtham), Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit,

Sall. J. 35, 10:

ubi non sit, quo deferri possit venale, non expediat colere (hortos),

Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 3:

familia,

i. e. a gang of slaves for sale, Quint. 7, 2, 26.—

In partic.: vēnālis, is, m., a young slave offered for sale, Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 4; id. Rud. 4, 3, 35; id. Trin. 2, 2, 51 al.; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146; Sen. Ben. 4, 13, 3; id. Ep. 80, 8; Hor. S. 1, 1, 47; Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 199; cf. Quint. 8, 2, 8.—Hence, Caesărī vēnāles (or as one word, Caesărĭvēnāles), ium, m., a name given to the inhabitants of Castulo, in Spain, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 25.—

Transf., that can be bought by bribes or presents, venal:

quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jus jurandum, veritatem, officium, religionem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62, § 144:

fidem cum proposuisses venalem in provinciā,

id. ib. 2, 2, 32, §

78: juris dictio,

id. ib. 2, 2, 48, §

119: multitudo pretio,

Liv. 35, 50, 4:

amicae ad munus,

Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 21:

cena,

Mart. 3, 60, 1:

animae,

Sil. 15, 500:

amici,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.

ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 3 ( perf. subj. emissim, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 39), v. a. [the same word with EMERE=accipere, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 4, 18, and 76, 1 Müll.; cf. adimo and demo; prop., to take; root yam; Sanscr. yamati, hold fast, Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 158 sq.; cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 598 note], to buy, purchase (very freq. in all periods and kinds of composition).

Lit.:

is postquam hunc emit, dedit eum, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 19:

qui puellam ab eo emerat,

id. Rud. prol. 59:

emit hosce de praeda,

id. Capt. prol. 34; 1, 2, 2; id. Epid. 1, 1, 62:

aliquid de aliquo,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 64; Cic. Att. 10, 5, 3; 13, 31, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6.—With gen. or abl. pretii (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 444): Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili. Ep. Quot minis? Th. Quadraginta minis, Plaut. Epid. 1, 1, 49 sq.; so,

quanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 41:

tanti, quanti, etc.,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59:

minoris aut pluris,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 7; id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Att. 10, 5, 3 al.:

duodeviginti minis,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 74:

duobus milibus nummum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6:

magno, parvo,

id. Att. 13, 29 fin.:

immenso quaedam,

Suet. Calig. 39 al.:

bene,

i. e. cheap, Cic. Att. 1, 13 fin.; 12, 23, 3:

male,

i. e. dear, id. ib. 2, 4, 1; cf.

care,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238:

quatuor tabernas in publicum,

for the public, Liv. 39, 44; 44, 16 fin.:

piper in libras,

by the pound, Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 28:

fundum in diem,

on time, on credit, Nep. Att. 9, 5:

per assem et libram,

i. e. to adopt, Suet. Aug. 64 al. — Perf. part. pass. as subst.

empta, ae, f., she who is bought, the slave, Prop. 1, 9, 4.—

emptum, i, n., the purchase, contract of purchase:

quae ex empto aut vendito aut conducto aut locato contra fidem fiunt,

through buying and selling, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74;

so in jurid. lang.: ex empto,

Dig. 17, 1, 14; cf.

the title: De actionibus empti et venditi,

Dig. 19, 1; Cod. Just. 4, 49.—

Prov.: emere oportet, quem oboedire velis tibi,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 2.—

Trop., to buy, buy up, to purchase, gain, acquire, procure, obtain:

aliquando desinat ea se putare posse emere, quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62; cf.:

sententias (judicum),

id. Clu. 36 fin.; and:

animos centurionum,

Tac. H. 4, 57:

ex his (tribunis plebis) emitur ab inimicis meis is, quem, etc.,

Cic. Sest. 33, 72:

militem,

Tac. H. 1, 5 fin.; Suet. Galb. 15:

exercitum,

Flor. 3, 1, 9:

percussorem in aliquem,

Curt. 4, 1 et saep.:

aliquem beneficiis,

to gain over, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57; cf. Verg. G. 1, 31:

aliquem dote,

Ov. M. 8, 54:

spem pretio,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 11:

immortalitatem morte,

Quint. 9, 3, 71; cf.:

aeternum nomen sanguine,

Ov. Am. 2, 10, 32:

pulmenta laboribus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48:

voluptatem dolore,

id. ib. 1, 2, 55 et saep.—With a clause as object, Sil. 7, 620:

furtis in manibus emptum est Oedipodae sedisse loco,

Stat. Th. 1, 163:

quantine emptum velit Hannibal, ut nos Vertentes terga aspiciat?

Sil. 10, 287; Just. 23, 2, 8.

ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 3 ( perf. subj. emissim, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 39), v. a. [the same word with EMERE=accipere, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 4, 18, and 76, 1 Müll.; cf. adimo and demo; prop., to take; root yam; Sanscr. yamati, hold fast, Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 158 sq.; cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 598 note], to buy, purchase (very freq. in all periods and kinds of composition).

Lit.:

is postquam hunc emit, dedit eum, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 19:

qui puellam ab eo emerat,

id. Rud. prol. 59:

emit hosce de praeda,

id. Capt. prol. 34; 1, 2, 2; id. Epid. 1, 1, 62:

aliquid de aliquo,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 64; Cic. Att. 10, 5, 3; 13, 31, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6.—With gen. or abl. pretii (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 444): Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili. Ep. Quot minis? Th. Quadraginta minis, Plaut. Epid. 1, 1, 49 sq.; so,

quanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 41:

tanti, quanti, etc.,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59:

minoris aut pluris,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 7; id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Att. 10, 5, 3 al.:

duodeviginti minis,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 74:

duobus milibus nummum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6:

magno, parvo,

id. Att. 13, 29 fin.:

immenso quaedam,

Suet. Calig. 39 al.:

bene,

i. e. cheap, Cic. Att. 1, 13 fin.; 12, 23, 3:

male,

i. e. dear, id. ib. 2, 4, 1; cf.

care,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238:

quatuor tabernas in publicum,

for the public, Liv. 39, 44; 44, 16 fin.:

piper in libras,

by the pound, Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 28:

fundum in diem,

on time, on credit, Nep. Att. 9, 5:

per assem et libram,

i. e. to adopt, Suet. Aug. 64 al. — Perf. part. pass. as subst.

empta, ae, f., she who is bought, the slave, Prop. 1, 9, 4.—

emptum, i, n., the purchase, contract of purchase:

quae ex empto aut vendito aut conducto aut locato contra fidem fiunt,

through buying and selling, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74;

so in jurid. lang.: ex empto,

Dig. 17, 1, 14; cf.

the title: De actionibus empti et venditi,

Dig. 19, 1; Cod. Just. 4, 49.—

Prov.: emere oportet, quem oboedire velis tibi,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 2.—

Trop., to buy, buy up, to purchase, gain, acquire, procure, obtain:

aliquando desinat ea se putare posse emere, quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62; cf.:

sententias (judicum),

id. Clu. 36 fin.; and:

animos centurionum,

Tac. H. 4, 57:

ex his (tribunis plebis) emitur ab inimicis meis is, quem, etc.,

Cic. Sest. 33, 72:

militem,

Tac. H. 1, 5 fin.; Suet. Galb. 15:

exercitum,

Flor. 3, 1, 9:

percussorem in aliquem,

Curt. 4, 1 et saep.:

aliquem beneficiis,

to gain over, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57; cf. Verg. G. 1, 31:

aliquem dote,

Ov. M. 8, 54:

spem pretio,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 11:

immortalitatem morte,

Quint. 9, 3, 71; cf.:

aeternum nomen sanguine,

Ov. Am. 2, 10, 32:

pulmenta laboribus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48:

voluptatem dolore,

id. ib. 1, 2, 55 et saep.—With a clause as object, Sil. 7, 620:

furtis in manibus emptum est Oedipodae sedisse loco,

Stat. Th. 1, 163:

quantine emptum velit Hannibal, ut nos Vertentes terga aspiciat?

Sil. 10, 287; Just. 23, 2, 8.

ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 3 ( perf. subj. emissim, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 39), v. a. [the same word with EMERE=accipere, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 4, 18, and 76, 1 Müll.; cf. adimo and demo; prop., to take; root yam; Sanscr. yamati, hold fast, Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 158 sq.; cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 598 note], to buy, purchase (very freq. in all periods and kinds of composition).

Lit.:

is postquam hunc emit, dedit eum, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 19:

qui puellam ab eo emerat,

id. Rud. prol. 59:

emit hosce de praeda,

id. Capt. prol. 34; 1, 2, 2; id. Epid. 1, 1, 62:

aliquid de aliquo,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 64; Cic. Att. 10, 5, 3; 13, 31, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6.—With gen. or abl. pretii (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 444): Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili. Ep. Quot minis? Th. Quadraginta minis, Plaut. Epid. 1, 1, 49 sq.; so,

quanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 41:

tanti, quanti, etc.,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59:

minoris aut pluris,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 7; id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Att. 10, 5, 3 al.:

duodeviginti minis,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 74:

duobus milibus nummum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6:

magno, parvo,

id. Att. 13, 29 fin.:

immenso quaedam,

Suet. Calig. 39 al.:

bene,

i. e. cheap, Cic. Att. 1, 13 fin.; 12, 23, 3:

male,

i. e. dear, id. ib. 2, 4, 1; cf.

care,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238:

quatuor tabernas in publicum,

for the public, Liv. 39, 44; 44, 16 fin.:

piper in libras,

by the pound, Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 28:

fundum in diem,

on time, on credit, Nep. Att. 9, 5:

per assem et libram,

i. e. to adopt, Suet. Aug. 64 al. — Perf. part. pass. as subst.

empta, ae, f., she who is bought, the slave, Prop. 1, 9, 4.—

emptum, i, n., the purchase, contract of purchase:

quae ex empto aut vendito aut conducto aut locato contra fidem fiunt,

through buying and selling, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74;

so in jurid. lang.: ex empto,

Dig. 17, 1, 14; cf.

the title: De actionibus empti et venditi,

Dig. 19, 1; Cod. Just. 4, 49.—

Prov.: emere oportet, quem oboedire velis tibi,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 2.—

Trop., to buy, buy up, to purchase, gain, acquire, procure, obtain:

aliquando desinat ea se putare posse emere, quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62; cf.:

sententias (judicum),

id. Clu. 36 fin.; and:

animos centurionum,

Tac. H. 4, 57:

ex his (tribunis plebis) emitur ab inimicis meis is, quem, etc.,

Cic. Sest. 33, 72:

militem,

Tac. H. 1, 5 fin.; Suet. Galb. 15:

exercitum,

Flor. 3, 1, 9:

percussorem in aliquem,

Curt. 4, 1 et saep.:

aliquem beneficiis,

to gain over, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57; cf. Verg. G. 1, 31:

aliquem dote,

Ov. M. 8, 54:

spem pretio,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 11:

immortalitatem morte,

Quint. 9, 3, 71; cf.:

aeternum nomen sanguine,

Ov. Am. 2, 10, 32:

pulmenta laboribus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48:

voluptatem dolore,

id. ib. 1, 2, 55 et saep.—With a clause as object, Sil. 7, 620:

furtis in manibus emptum est Oedipodae sedisse loco,

Stat. Th. 1, 163:

quantine emptum velit Hannibal, ut nos Vertentes terga aspiciat?

Sil. 10, 287; Just. 23, 2, 8.

margărītārĭus, a, um, adj. [margarita], of or belonging to pearls, pearl- (postclass.): porticus, where pearls were bought, Auct. de Region. Urb. Rom. Reg. 8.—

Subst.

margărītārĭus, ii, m., a dealer in pearls, a pearl-fisher, Firm. Math. 4, 6; Inscr. Orell. 1602; 4076; 4218.—

Margărītārĭa, ae, f., a female dealer in pearls, Inscr Orell. 4148.

margărītārĭus, a, um, adj. [margarita], of or belonging to pearls, pearl- (postclass.): porticus, where pearls were bought, Auct. de Region. Urb. Rom. Reg. 8.—

Subst.

margărītārĭus, ii, m., a dealer in pearls, a pearl-fisher, Firm. Math. 4, 6; Inscr. Orell. 1602; 4076; 4218.—

Margărītārĭa, ae, f., a female dealer in pearls, Inscr Orell. 4148.