price (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. prĕtium2. when price is indicated indefinitely, in such phrr. as, at a high, low p., etc.3. price of corn, annōna (market-price) • price (subs.): 1. prĕtium: (to buy) at a low, high p., parvo, magno p., Caes. B. G. 1, 18: Cic.: to agree on a p. for one's head, p. pacisci pro capite, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107: to fix a p. (as a dealer does), p. constituere, id. Att. 12, 33: p.s are fallen, jacent p., id. R. Com. 12, init. 2. when price is indicated indefinitely, in such phrr. as, at a high, low p., etc.: use, magni, parvi, tanti, etc.: (to sell a female slave) at cost p., (tanti) quanti empta est, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 41; more precisely, tantidem (for just so much), ib. 2, 1, 46: at what p. does Chrysogonus give lessons? quanti C. docet? Juv. 7, 176: so, at a higher or lower p., majoris, pluris: L. G. § 281. (N.B.--The forms magno, parvo, maximo, plurimo, are also common.) 3. price of corn, annōna (market-price): the p. of corn had risen to ..., ad ... annona pervenerat, Caes. B. C. 1, 52: to raise the p. of corn, incendere s. excandefacere annonam, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, ad fin.: also, a. flagellare (artificially, by buying up the supply), Plin. 33, extr. Also used of other commodities of which there is a regular sale: Juv. 9, 100 (veneni a.): Plin. l. c. Phr.: to be had for a p., venalis, Sall. Jug. 35, extr.: beyond all (estimate of) p., super omnem taxationem, Plin. 7, 12, 56. See also value.