Emo, emis emi, emptum, émere. To buy: to purchase.Quia de illo emi virginem.Plaut.I bought of him.Bene emere.Cic.To buy good cheape.Carè emere. Hor. To buy deare.Emere tam salubriter, vt pœnitentie locus non relinquatur.Plin. iun.Emere argento sibi aliquem.Plaut.To buy for money.Propè dimidio carius emere aliquid quám æstimatur. Cice. To buy dearer by halfe than it is praised.Emere bona fide.Plaut.To buy without fraud or craft.Emere magno.Cic.To buie at a high price.Malè emere.Cic.To buy deare.Minimo emit.Plaut.He bought it very good cheape.Piper pondere emitur. Plin. Pepper is bought by weight.Precibus emere. Sen. To purchase by prayer and intreatie.Emere pretio alterius. Tete. To buie at an other mans price or valuing.Poressas virtute emitur. Claud. Power is purchased, &c.Emit tanti, quanti Pythius voluit.Cic.He gaue as much for it as Pythins woulde desire.Emere aliquem donis.Liu.To corrupt or proture ones fauour with bribes.Emere aliquem vita.Virg.Emere aliquid in publicum.Liu.To buie a thing, to the end it may be common. Munere custodem emere. Oui. To corrupt the keper with money or bribes.Citharas emere. Hor. Gaudia emere.Stat.To purchase soy.Generum sibi emere.Virg.To procure.Emere talento inimicum.Plaut.To purchase one to be our enimie, with lending him a talent in money.Noui te hominem molestum, quíue emas litigium.Plaut.I know thou arte a busie fellow, and seekest nothing but for trouble and coutention.Metum emere. Lucan. Mortem emere. Proper. Emere pretio spem. Tere. I wil not buy a birde in the bush: I purpose not to purchase hope with readie money.Ad sententias emendas dedisse pecuniam. Ci. To corrupt or bribe the Iudges, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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). I.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, 16fin.: 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.(a). empta, ae, f., she who is bought, the slave, Prop. 1, 9, 4.— (b). 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.—II.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.