Commercium, commercij. Plin. Familiar custome and arquaintance togither: communication for buying & selling, &c.Bonorum commercia. Claud. Commercia belli. Virg.Commercio sermonis feras linguas contrahere ad colloquia. Pli. To bring to communication and talke togither.Terræ geminæ commercia.Stat.Facere commercia. Claud. Commercium rei habere. Vlpian. To haue authoritie to buy and sell.Locum esse commercio. Brutus Ciceroni. In agro Segestano Panormitanis commercium est.Cic.Alicui ne commercium quidem esse oportet.Cic.Miscere commercio diuersas gentes. Vide MISCEO. Commercium. Plin. Entercourse of merchaundise from one place to another.Miscere commercio diuersas gentes.To mingle diuerse nations togither by entertourse of merchandise. Commercium, Vsus & consuetudo vel societas. Et tunc præpositioni CVM iungitur. Cic. Nec habet vllum cum virtute commercium. He vseth no honestie or vertuous conuersation at all.Non habet commercium cum virtute voluptas.Cic.Sensualitie hath no societie with vertue.Exercere commercia linguæ.Ouid.Perdere linguæ commercia.Ouid.To leese the vse of the tongue.Cum ea mihi fuit commercium.Plaut.I had acquaintance with her.
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com-mercĭum (con-m-; ante-class.; sometimes commircĭum; cf. Vel. Long. p. 2236 P.), ii, n. [merx]. I.Commercial intercourse, trade, traffic, commerce: mare magnum et ignara lingua commercia prohibebant, Sall. J. 18, 5; Plin. 33, 1, 3, 7; Plin. Pan. 29; Tac. Agr. 24; Liv. 4, 52, 6: salis, id. 45, 29, 13: commercium hominum in locum aliquem mutui usus contrahunt, id. 38, 18, 12: neque Thraces commercio faciles erunt, id. 40, 58, 1: jus commercii, Dig. 49, 5, 6.—B.Meton.1.The right to trade as merchants, a mercantile right: commercium in eo agro nemini est, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 40, 93; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 50, 124: L. Crasso commercium istarum rerum cum Graecis hominibus non fuisse, id. ib. 2, 4, 59, 133: ceteris Latinis populis conubia commerciaque et concilia inter se ademerunt, Liv. 8, 14, 10; 43, 5, 9; cf. Dig. 41, 1, 62; 30, 1, 39; 45, 1, 34.— 2.An article of traffic, merchandise, wares: commercia militaria, Plin. 35, 13, 47, 168; for provisions, id. 26, 4, 9, 18; cf. Front. 2, 5, 14.—3.A place of trade, market - place: commercia et litora peragrare, Plin. 37, 3, 11, 45; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 58.—II. In gen., intercourse, communication, correspondence, fellowship; lit. and trop.: quid tibi mecum est commerci, senex?Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 4; id. Bacch. 1, 2, 9; id. Stich. 4, 1, 15: mihi cum vostris legibus Nihil est commerci,
I have nothing to do with your laws
, id. Rud. 3, 4, 20: commercium habere cum Musis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: commercium habere cum virtute, id. Sen. 12, 42: dandi et excipiendi beneficii, Val. Max. 5, 3, ext. 3: agrorum aedificiorumque inter se, Liv. 45, 29, 10: plebis,
, id. ib. 14, 33: belli tollere, Verg. A. 10, 532; so, belli dirimere, Tac. H. 3, 81.—Plur.: est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli, Ov. A. A. 3, 549.— B. Esp., forbidden intercourse, illicit commerce: libidinis, Val. Max. 8, 2, 2: stupri, Suet. Calig. 36.—Absol.: cum eā mihi fuit commercium, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 77.—2. In law, = collusio, Cod. Th. 3, 11, 4; cf. ib. 11, 4, 1 al.