Véndito, venditas, pen. cor. venditâre, Frequent. Plin. To sell often: to haue to sel: to set to saile.Contubernalis meus vult emere agellum, quem venditare amicus tuus dicitur.Plin. iun. hoc est, velle vendere. Istius omnia decreta, imperia, literas peritissimè & callidissimè vendita bat. Ci. Asse venditare aliquid. Catul. Venditare. Ci. To do any thing before men, to set forth him selfe and haue a praise: to vaunt: to crake: to brag.Se venditant Cæsari. Ci. They vaunt themselues and offertheir seruice stoutly to Tæsat.Potentibus contra humiles venditare operam suam. Quint. Per illos se plebi venditare. Li. By their meanes to set foorth himselfe to the people.Ingenium venditare, & memoriam ostentare. Author ad Heren. Gloriously or braggingly to shew his wit, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vendĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [id.], to offer again and again for sale, to try to sell (class., esp. in the trop. sense). I.Lit.: Tusculanum venditat, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 7: mercem, Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: agellum (opp. emere), Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 1: piscinas grandi aere, Col. 8, 16, 5: olus, Plin. 22, 22, 38, 80: mutationes stativorum, Tac. H. 1, 66: hordeum colonis, App. M. 7, p. 194, 36: non ego possum, quae ipsa sese venditat, tutarier, i. e. prostitutes herself, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 41; cf. id. Curc. 4, 1, 21.—II.Trop., to cry up, praise, commend, recommend, blazon: istius omnia decreta, imperia, litteras peritissime et callidissime venditabat, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, 135; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 59, 133: pacem pretio, Liv. 38, 42, 11: munera principis et adipiscendorum honorum jus, Tac. A. 1, 49 med.: suam operam, Liv. 44, 25, 5; Quint. 12, 7, 6: ingenii venditandi aut memoriae ostentandae causā, Auct. Her. 2, 30, 47: obsequium amatori, Liv. 39, 43, 9: valde te venditavi, i. e.
have praised you
, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 16.—B. Esp.: se alicui, pay court to, conciliate, etc.: quo modo se venditant Caesari? i. e.
do they ingratiate themselves with him
, Cic. Att. 8, 16, 1: existimationi hominum, id. Verr. 2, 3, 58, 132: quod non florentibus se venditavit, Nep. Att. 11, 3: se plebi, Liv. 3, 35, 5: se senatui litteris, Vell. 2, 63, 3.—C.To betray: qui perduellionis venditat patriam, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15.