EXCHANGE Copy link • EXCHANGEmutatio: permutatio: (☞ not commutatio, which means only “change,” “alteration,” in classical writers). To make an exchange [Vid: To EXCHANGE]. Exchange of money, collybus (☞ not cambium). To pay by a bill of exchange, permutare alicui pecuniam, etc.: by a bill of exchange payable at Athens; to give anybody a bill of exchange on Athens for his annual expenses, curare, ut permutetur Athenas quod sit in annuum sumptum alicui (Cic., Att., 15, 15, fin.). An exchange (place of business), basilica (roofed and with pillars, for the convenience of merchants, etc.): conciliabulumf (general term): *conciliabulum mercatorum: mercatus, us: *forum mercatorium.