Mercâtus, huius mercátus, pen. prod. m. g. Plaut.A buying.Asinos vendidit Pellæo mercatori mercatu. Pla. He making a price solde his asses to. Mercatus.Terent.A mart: a fayre: a place where ware is solde: a market place.Mercatu frequenti negotiatores Romanos comprehensos querebatur.Liu.He complayned that the merchauntes of Rome were apprehended in open faire or market where great assemble of people was.Auertere se in mercatum, Vide AVERTO.Instituere mercatum.Cic.To set to be solde.Concelebrare mereatum, Vide CONCELEBRO.Indicere mercatum.Cic.To publish a mart or sale of things.
Mercor, mercâris, mercâtus sum, mercâri; Deponens, Meieo, significat. To buy: to buy to the ende to sell for gaines. Ter. Si & ea mercatus esses quæ ego desyderabam, & ad eam summam quam volueram. Cic.Qui mercantur mercatoribus, quod statim vendant.Cic.Fundum mercatus est de pupillo.Cic.He bought a peece of lande of.Quem mercatus fuerat frater Thaidi.Terent.Which the brother bought for Thais.Amicam quiuis mercatur muneribus. Propert. Delicias mercatus sum.Stat. Equos mercari. Horat. Mercari magistratū pretio.Cic.To buye an office for money.Magno mercari aliquid.Virg.To buye deare or at an high price.Mercari præsenti pecunia. Plant. To buye for ready money.Mercatur minore pretio. Gel. Mercari sestertijs sexcentis. Colum. Mercari Græca fide.Plaut.To buye for ready money out of hand.
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mercātus, ūs, m. [id.], trade, traffic, buying and selling (class.): apud aedem Veneris mercatus meretricius, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 129: turpissimus mercatus, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 6: domesticus, id. ib. 3, 12, 30.—II.Transf., a place for trade, market-place.market, mart: postquam pater ad mercatum abiit, Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 55: frequens mercatus, Liv. 1, 30: mercatus conventusque Graeciae, Suet. Ner. 28: mercatu indicto, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, 133: Asiae Graeciaeque, Liv. 33, 32, 2; Tac. H. 3, 30: (Numa Pompilius) mercatus ludos omnesque conveniendi causas et celebritates invenit, Cic. Rep. 2, 14, 27.—B. In gen., a festival assemblage, public feast, transl. of the Greek panh/guris: mercatus is qui habetur maximo ludorum apparatu, totius Graeciae celebritate, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 8: in mercatu Olympiaco, Just. 13, 5, 3: Asiae Graeciaeque is mercatus erat, Liv. 33, 32, 2: magna pars Italiae stato in eosdem dies mercatu congregata, Tac. H. 3, 30.
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). I.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.—II.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.).