purchase (v.) Copy link Outline 1. ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 32. compăro, 1 (to procure)3. penso, 1 (to pay down money; rarely with acc. of thing secured)4. mercor, 1, dep. (acc. of thing; abl. [with ab or de] of pers.; abl. or gen. of price) • purchase (v.): (wider in sense than buy) to obtain or redeem at any sort of cost (abl.). 1. ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 3: food p.d by your toil, pulmenta laboribus empta, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48: pleasure p.d at the cost of pain is hurtful, nocet empta dolore voluptas, id. ib. 1, 2, 55: he has p.d immortality by death, emit morte immortalitatem, Quint. 9, 3, 71. Comps. (1) cŏĕmo, 3: (to collect by purchasing): cf. Hor. Od. 1, 29, 13, coëmptos undique nobiles libros. (2) rĕdĭmo, 3 (to buy back; but more freq. fig.): to p. peace, pacem redimere ab aliquo, Just. 43, 5, fin.: to p. favour and friendship by (Caesar's) death, gratiam atque amicitiam ejus morte r., Caes. B. G. 1, 44: he p.d the good will of the soldiers by gratuities, largitione militum voluntates redemit, id. B. C. 1, 39: to p. at a price, and esp. with a bribe, pretio redimere: parents were compelled to p. for their children with a bribe not life but a speedy death, non vitam liberum, sed mortis celeritatem pretio redimere cogebantur parentes, Cic. Verr. 5, 45, 119: redimat pretio sepeliendi potestatem, id. ib.: in the sense of to p. immunity for, obtain pardon of, an offence: flagitium aut facinus red.. Sall. C. 14: (with per of the price), Ut sua per nostram redimat perjuria poenam, Ov. Am. 3, 3, 21. 2. compăro, 1 (to procure): v. to provide, procure. 3. penso, 1 (to pay down money; rarely with acc. of thing secured): to p. victory with a loss of men, victoriam damno p. militis, Vell. 2, 115: of a ransom, vitam p. auro, Sil. 2, 35. 4. mercor, 1, dep. (acc. of thing; abl. [with ab or de] of pers.; abl. or gen. of price): to p. goods from merchants and sell them again directly, m. a mercatoribus quod statim [vendas], Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150: with de, fundum mercatus est de pupillo, id. Fl. 20, 46: to p. at so dear a rate, tanto pretio m., id. R. Am. 46, 133: I think that these services ought to be purchased at the cost of life, ego haec officia mercanda vita puto, Cic. Att. 9, 5. Comp. ēmercor (= buy off, p. out, p. immunity for): cf. adulterium ingentibus donis e., Tac. A. 13, 44; aditum principis e., ib. 16, 1.