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vendibilis

vendibilis · adj

that may be sold

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Where it lives

Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

vendĭbĭlis — Lewis & Short

vendĭbĭlis, e, adj.id.,

I that may be sold, salable, vendible.

I Lit.: via vendibilis Herculanea multarum deliciarum et magnae pecuniae, Cic. Agr. 2, 14, 36; so, fundus, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 47: merx, Plin. 32, 2, 11, § 23: proles, Col. 7, 6 fin.—Comp.: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 2; App. M. 8, p. 212, 5.—

II Trop., acceptable, agreeable, popular: nam ut sint illa vendibiliora, haec uberiora certe sunt, Cic. Fin. 1, 4, 12: vendibilis orator, id. Brut. 47, 174: (C. Visellius Varro) populo non erat satis vendibilis, id. ib. 76, 264: oratio, id. Lael. 25, 96: puella, Ov. Am. 3, 12, 10. —* Adv.: vendĭbĭlĭter, salably; pleasantly, Hier. Ep. 130, 18.

In the wild

vendibili Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.12.p1
vendibilis Cicero, Brutus 174
vendibiles Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.18
vendibilis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.6.8
vendibiliora Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.12
vendibilis Cicero, Brutus 264

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