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emptio

emptio · f

a buying

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Where it lives

Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 4 · 3.02/10k
Pro M. Tullio 1 · 2.91/10k
Pro L. Flacco 3 · 2.75/10k
Pro A. Caecina 2 · 1.93/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
De Lege Agraria 2 · 1.45/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
In C. Verrem 7 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

emptĭo — Lewis & Short

emptĭo (emt-), ōnis, f.id.,

I a buying, purchase (cf.: sectio, mercatura, etc.).

I Prop., Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 5; 2, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 6, 17; id. Att. 12, 3; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43; Tac. H. 3, 34 et saep.; cf., on its legal relations, Gai. Inst. 3, 139; the title: De emptione et venditione, Just. Inst. 3, 23; Dig. 18, 1; and Rein's Privatr. p. 329 sq.: equina, i. e. of horses (with boum and asinorum), Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 6.—

II Transf.

1 A purchase, i. e. an article purchased: ex illis emptionibus nullam desidero, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2; Plin. Ep. 2, 15, 1.—

2 A purchase-deed, bill of sale, Dig. 32, 1, 102 al.

In the wild

emptionibus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.10
emptionibus Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.2.3
emptionibus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.46.4
emptionem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.40
emptionibus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.35
emptiones Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 74

6 of 53 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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