To exercise marchaundise: to be in businesse. Negotiari animas dicuntur medici. Plinius. To kill men for money: to game by killing of men. Negotiari aliquo genere mercaturæ. Colum.

Businesse: asfaire: charge: trouble. Negotij plenus. Plaut. Full of businesse, that hath berie much to doe: greatly letted or troubled with affaires. Sed quid negotij, quamobrem succenses mihi? Plautus. But what is the matter why ye be angrie with me: Autarium negotium. Plaut. A money matter. Caibonarium negotium, Vide CARBO. Depaticum negotinm, Vide DAPS. Decisa negotia. Hor. Forensia. Quine. Humana. Iuuenal. Lautum negotium. Cic. Id est, egregium. An excellent businesse. Maturarum negotium, Vide MATVRVS. Sæuum negotium. Horat. Non sine negotio. Plin. Not without businesse & trouble: not easlly. Nullo negotio. Cic. Verie easily: without paine or trouble. Nullo negotio occisus. Cic. Slaine verie easily: by easie procurement murdered. Abstinere negotijs, Vide ABSTINEO. Accerlere ad aliquod negotium. Terent. Administrare negotium. Vide ADMINISTRO. Agere negotium, Vide AGO. Agere negotium suum. Cic. Attribuere negotium, Vide ATTRIBVO. Conmmetiri negotium, Vide COMMETIOR. Conficere negotium, Vide CONFICIO. Pancis verbis negotium conficere. Cic. To dispatch the matter in few wordes. Conflare alicui negotìum. Vide CONFLO. Aliena negotia curo excussus proprijs. Horat. Dedo tibi istuc negorij, Vide DEDOS. Dare negotium, Cæsar, Dat negotium Senonibus, vti ea quæ apud eos gerantur, coguoscant. He giueth the people of Seanes in charge to vnderstand. Dare alicui de re aliqua negotiÛ. Cic. To giue one the charge to see to a thing. Dare & imperare quoddam negotium alicui. Cic. Exhibere alicui negotium. Cicer. To put one to trouble and businesse. Facessere negotiÛ alicui, IdÊ. Ci. To trouble: to worke trouble or daunger to: to vexe: to put in daunger by accusing. Facere negotium, Idem. Quint. Suinegotij bene gerens. Cic. He that doth well exployte his businesse. Gliscentibus negotijs. Tacit. Businesse and trouble rising.

I. Lit.: cum se Syracusas otiandi, non negotiandi causā contulisset, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58: Curius qui Patris negotiatur, id. Fam. 13, 17, 1; Sall. C. 40, 2: quibus mercibus negotiatur aliquis, Gai. Inst. 4, 74.—

B. Transf., in gen., to trade, traffic: negotiandi causā, Liv. 33, 29, 4; Col. praef. 12.—

C. To gain by traffic (eccl. Lat.): quantum negotiatus esset, Vulg. Luc. 19, 15.—

II. Trop.

A. To deal, traffic: animā statim nostrā negotiari, to traffic with our lives, Plin. 29, 1, 5, 11.—

B. To engage in business: circumspiciebam in quod me mare negotiaturus immitterem, Sen. Ep. 119, 5.—Hence, nĕ-gōtĭans, antis, P. a.—As subst.

A. A wholesale dealer, trader, banker, business man: negavi me cuipiam negotianti dare (praefecturam), Cic. Att. 5, 21, 10.—

B. In gen., a dealer, tradesman: MATERIARIVS, Inscr. Fabr. 655, n. 476: SALSAMENTARIVS ET VINARIARIVS, Inscr. Orell. 4249.—Plur.: aratores ac negotiantes, Suet. Aug. 42: negotiantes in basilicā, Vitr. 5, 1, 8: NEGOTIANTES VINI ARIMINENSES, Inscr. Rein. c. 3, n. 88 (a. p. Chr. n. 251).

I. Lit.: negoti nunc sum plenus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 146: quamquam negotiumst, si quid vis, non sum occupatus, etc., id. Merc. 2, 2, 17: qui deum nihil habere negotii volunt, Cic. Off. 3, 28, 102: in extremā parte muneris ac negotii tui, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, 46: forensia negotia, id. de Or. 2, 6, 23: qui omnibus negotiis interfuit, id. Fam. 1, 6, 1: negotium municipii administrare, id. ib. 13, 11: procurare, id. Verr. 2, 3, 64, 149: suscipere, id. Cat. 3, 2, 5: mandare alicui, id. Fam. 13, 26, 2: versari in negotio, id. Att. 5, 10, 3: emergere ex negotiis, id. ib. 5, 10, 3; Liv. 3, 4: transigere negotium, Cic. Phil. 2, 9, 21: negotio desistere, Caes. B. G. 1, 45: in magno negotio habere aliquid, to regard a thing as important, of great moment, Suet. Caes. 23: est mihi negotium cum aliquo, I have to do with one: mirabar, quid hic negotii esset tibi, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 8; Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 9: adparatus, quem flagitabat instans negotium, Amm. 20, 10, 1.—Esp. with reference to affairs of state: nostrum otium negotii inopia, non requiescendi studio constitutum est, Cic. Off. 3, 1, 2; cf. Suet. Aug. 32: publicis adfinis fuit an maritumis negotiis? i. e. in farming the revenue or in private commerce, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 50.—Of the management of domestic concerns: qui suum negotium gerunt otiosi, Cic. Lael. 23, 86: praeclare suum negotium gessit Roscius, id. Rosc. Com. 12, 34: suum negotium agere, id. Off. 1, 9, 29; cf. id. ib. 1, 34, 125.—So of trade, traffic: aes alienum negotii gerendi studio contractum, Cic. Sull. 20, 58; id. Vat. 5, 12: negotii gerentes, tradesmen, id. Sest. 45, 97: Trebonius ampla et expedita negotia in tuā provinciā habet, id. Fam. 1, 3, 1: Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 33.—Of a lawsuit, Quint. 3, 5, 11; Suet. Calig. 40; id. Rhet. 6; cf. Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 2.—

II. Transf.

A. Difficulty, pains, trouble, labor: ita et hinc et illinc mi exhibent negotium, give me trouble, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 38: huic exhibui negotium, id. Men. 5, 9, 13; id. Poen. 1, 2, 30: viden egestas quid negoti dat homini misero male, id. Trin. 4, 2, 5: satis habeo negotii in sanandis vulneribus, Cic. Att. 5, 17, 6: magnum negotium est navigare atque id mense Quintili, id. ib. 5, 12: negotium facessere alicui, to give one trouble, id. Fam. 3, 10, 1: negotium exhibere alicui, id. Off. 3, 31, 112: facere innocenti, Quint. 5, 12, 13: nihil est negotii libertatem recuperare, Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 1: Cato Siciliam tenere nullo negotio potuit, id. Att. 10, 16, 3; id. Fam. 2, 10, 2: non minori negotio, id. Verr. 2, 5, 68, 175: quid negotii est haec poëtarum, portenta convincere? id. Tusc. 1, 6, 11: facili negotio, with little trouble (post-class.), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 38; cf.: levi negotio, Amm. 20, 10, 2 al.: magno negotio, Cels. 7, 5 init.; Auct. B. Aiex. 8, 4: plus negotii est, si acutus quoque morbus is factus est, Cels. 4, 6.—

B. Like the Gr. pra=gma, for res, a matter, thing: quid est negoti? Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 27; 3, 2, 54: quid negoti est, quamobrem succenses mihi? id. Capt. 3, 5, 11: ineptum negotium et Graeculum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 86. —So of persons Teucris illa lentum negotium, a slow affair, Cic. Att. 1, 12, 1; cf. id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4: elinguem, tardum, inhumanum negotium, id. post Red. in Sen. 6, 14. —As transl. of to\ pra=gma, euphemism for sensual sins, Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 6; ib. 2 Cor. 7, 11: a negotio perambulante in tenebris, some indefinable terror, ib. Psa. 90, 6.