Merx, mercis, f. g. Cic.Any kinde of marchandise: chaffer: ware that is bought and solde.Esculentæ merces. Colum. Vittailea solde to eate.Fallaces & fucosæ merces.Cic.Improba merx, Vide IMEROBVS.Inuendibilis merx.Plaut.Vnsaleable ware: chaffer that wil not well be vttered.Mala merx.Plaut.Proba merx.Plaut.Good and lawfull ware.Sordidæ mercis negoriator. Quint. Vendibilis merx. Pliu. Saleable ware. Augere merces. Plin. Conuehere merces ex Hispania. Plin. To bring marchandise out of Spaine.Expedire suas merces.Ouid.To open his ware to be solde.Vænales merces extrudere. Horat. With earnest meanes to endeuour to sell.Gestat mercem sine fucis. Horat. Mutare merces.Ouid.To make chauuge of wares.Ostendere mercem. Horat. Partiri merces.Cic. Vendere merces. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
merx, cis (nom. sing. merces, Sall. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 27 P.), f. [mereo], goods, wares, commodities, merchandise (class.): invendibili merce oportet ultro emptorem adducere: Proba merx facile emptorem reperit, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 128: fallaces et fucosae, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40: peregrina et delicata, Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 1: femineae,
for women
, Ov. M. 13, 165: esculenta,
eatables, victuals
, Col. 11, 3: navem mercibus implere, Juv. 14, 288: sarmenta quoque in merce sunt,
are an article of merchandise
, Plin. 12, 25, 54, 118: Arabiae et Indiae, id. 19, 1, 2, 7: mercis sordidae negotiator, Quint. 1, 12, 17: in peculiari merce negotiari, Gai. Inst. 4, 72.—II.Transf., in gen., a thing (ante-class.). A. Of persons: mala merx haec, et callida est,
a bad lot
, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 61; id. Ps. 4, 1, 44; id. Pers. 2, 2, 56.—Plur.: novi ego illas malas merces, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 23: o mercis malae!id. Truc. 2, 4, 58.—B. Of inanim. and abstr. subjects: ut aetas mala mala'st merces tergo!Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6 Ritschl N. cr. (in old MSS. for merx also mers is written acc. to Ritschl; v. Rhein. Mus. 10, p. 454 sq.).