21.07.26: Level 3 (review); Comenius (1658) CXXVI; merchandizing [4]: from the authors

Eho senex minimī pretī (Plautus)

• Hey, you worthless old man

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Delphōs vēnum pecus ēgī (Pacuvius)

• I drove the cattle to Delphi for sale.

Respondē: quis mē vendit? (Plautus)

• Answer! Who’s selling me?

Nunc tūsculum ēmī hoc et corōnās flōreās (Plautus)

• Now I've bought this small amount of incense and some wreaths of flowers

tum dēnique ager emētur cum idem expediet ēmptōrī et vēnditōrī (Cicero)

• Then at last the land will be bought, when it is advantageous to both buyer and seller alike

Nunc quasi ducentīs Philippīs ēmī fīlium, quōs dare prōmīsī mīlitī (Plautus)

• Now I have, as it were, bought my son for 200 Philippi*, which I promised to give to the soldier.

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*refers to gold coins first minted in Macedonia, but not standard denominations in Ancient Rome; it is used in Plautus to describe any high value gold coins

Ūnum quodque istōrum verbum nummīs Philippīs aureīs nōn potest auferre hinc ā mē sī quis ēmptor vēnerit (Plautus)

• Not a single one of those words do I part with for golden sovereigns, if any buyer should come.

hominēs in piscīnā inventī sunt, Stratō in vincula coniectus est, atque etiam in tabernā eius nummī, nēquāquam omnēs, reperiuntur (Cicero)

• The men were found in the pool, Strato was thrown into chains, and even in his shop some coins — by no means all — were discovered.

Nam Antōnius Augustī sorōre contemptā postquam Cleopatram dūxit uxōrem, monētam eius nōmine … iussit ferīrī (Honoratus)

• For once Augustus’ sister had been rejected, and after he married Cleopatra, Antony ordered a coin to be struck in her name.

argentum afferat mercātor prō asinīs (Plautus)

• the trader may bring the money [silver] for the asses

nam commercium in eō agrō nēminī est (Cicero)

• for there are no traders in that area [literally: nobody has trading rights …]

Quis est Sergius? armiger Catilīnae, stīpātor   tuī corporis, signifer sēditiōnis, concitātor tabernāriōrum (Cicero)

• Who is Sergius? Catiline’s soldier, your bodyguard, the standard-bearer of sedition, the agitator of the shopkeepers

Tum repente Ancōnitānum quendam, L. Clōdium, pharmacopōlam circumforāneum … (Cicero)

• Then he suddenly approached a certain Lucius Clodius of Ancona, a travelling quack, …

pharmacolopōla, -ae [1/m]: somebody who sells medicines; pharmacist, but the word can also refer to a medical “quack” i.e. somebody peddling ineffective drugs. That Cicero uses the adjective circumforāneus is certainly derogatory – this salesman is itinerant, wandering from town to town and with no fixed establishment in, for example, a market place.

pharmacopōla circumforāneus