ready money Copy link Outline 1. praesens pĕcūnia2. nŭmĕrāta pĕcūnia • ready money: 1. praesens pĕcūnia: he paid the legacy in r. money. quae pecunia mulieri legata erat ... eam praesentem solvit, Cic. Cluent. 12, 34: to purchase anything for a heavy sum in r. money, aliquid tam grandi mercari praesenti pecunia, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 8. 2. nŭmĕrāta pĕcūnia: Cic. Top. 13 53: id. Fam. 10, 32: or simply pecunia: Suet. Aug. 101: or simply numeratum (subs.): Cic. Fam. 5, 40. Phr.: to possess r. money, habere in nummis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 86, 199: to carry about with oneself some r. money, aliquantum nummorum secum ferre, id. Inv. 2, 4, 14: to have much r. money, in suis nummis multis esse, id. Verr. 4, 6, 11: in suis nummis versari, id. Rosc. C. 8, 22: to pay in r. money, repraesentare, Suet. Aug. 101: Cic. Att. 12, 25, and 29: payment in r. money, repraesentatio, ib. 12, 31: in pecunia satis facere, id. Fam. 8., 12: to buy on trust and sell for r. money, caeca die emere, oculata die vendere, prov. ap. Plaut. Pseud. 1, 3, 82: buy for r. money, argento emere, id. Asin. 1, 3, 46.