hired (part. adj.) Copy link Outline 1. conductus (actually taken into pay)2. conducticius (to be had for hire, whether actually hired or not)3. mercēnārius (esp. with reference to something not usually or not lawfully trafficked in) • hired (part. adj.): 1. conductus (actually taken into pay): h. gangs of roughs, operae c., Cic. Sext. 17, init.: a h. abode, c. lar, Mart. 11, 82. Join: conductus et redemptus, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 5. 2. conducticius (to be had for hire, whether actually hired or not): the h. service of free labourers, c. liberorum operae, Varr. R. R. 1, 17 (where the kind of labour is to be described): a h. house (one of the class not occupied by their owners), domus c., Porc. in Suet. Ter. 3. mercēnārius (esp. with reference to something not usually or not lawfully trafficked in): v. mercenary, hireling. Oft. in masc. as subst. = a h. servant, opp. to a slave: to treat slaves as h. servants, servis uti ut mercenariis, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 41.