mercor — Lewis & Short
mercor, ātus, 1 (archaic form, mercassitur for mercatus fuerit,
Inscr. Grut. 512, 20.—I 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.).